DEL MAR — It’s 9:30
a.m. and Stacy McCarthy is
standing on the asphalt
behind Albertsons on Via
de la Valle, clasping her
hands together in the iconic
namaste gesture. Dogs are
barking, delivery trucks are
bustling behind the grocery
store and Interstate 5 roars
just a few hundred yards
away, but McCarthy is perfectly calm.
A group of 16 women
and two men have formed a
semicircle
around
McCarthy, one of North
County’s most prolific yoga
instructors, as she leads a
warm-up routine. Moments
later, the group sets out in
silent meditation on the
Lagoon Trail of the San
Dieguito River Park, heading toward the beach, where
they will practice yoga
poses on the beach.
McCarthy organized
this donation-based class as
one of several fundraisers
in advance of the Yoga for
Hope event at Petco Park
May 18. Yoga for Hope has
raised more than $125,000
for cancer research, treatment and education at City
of Hope in the past two
years, said Ellie Levine,
assistant director of development.
Organizers this year
hope to raise another
$100,000 for the City of
Hope as up to 700 people
gather on the outfield grass
in Petco Park for a morning
of yoga led by some of the
biggest names in yoga in
San
Diego,
including
McCarthy.
Levine attributes much
of Yoga for Hope’s success
to McCarthy’s involvement.
“She’s been such a
great advocate for the
cause,” Levine said. “She
thinks outside the box and
does an amazing job
fundraising for the event.”
McCarthy’s enormous
web of social connections in
the yoga world of San Diego
has certainly helped. It is a
network she has been developing since 1991, when she
helped launch the original
Frog’s Athletic Club in
Solana Beach.
In 1992 McCarthy
joined the vanguard of the
yoga movement when she
decided to bring yoga classes to the health club, an

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More Ranch
students set to
receive iPads
By Jeremy Ogul

RANCHO SANTA FE
— The Rancho Santa Fe
School Board agreed May 1
to expand the use of iPads
in fifth- and sixth-grade
classrooms for the coming
academic year.
The board unanimous-

using iPads last fall. In the
first year of the program,
school-owned iPads were
individually assigned only
to seventh- and eighthgraders, while all other
classrooms were supplied
with six iPads each.
The 246 new iPads will

Kids are in fact
communicating more and
more with their teachers.”
In 2000, Stacy McCarthy left her job in management at Frog’s Gym to found Yoga NamaStacy, which she continues to run today. Courtesy photo

McCarthy has helped to raise more than $125,000 for cancer research.
She will be at the Yoga for Hope event May 18 at Petco Park. Courtesy
photo

unconventional choice at
the time. She recruited
Dominic Corigliano to teach
the first classes.
“In 1992 yoga was not
anything like what yoga is
now,” McCarthy said. “I
could barely get anyone in
the class. I was practically
begging people to attend.”

By 1994 enrollment in
the yoga sessions began to
grow, and McCarthy began
working her way up through
management at Frog’s. She
was promoted to chief operating officer in 1997. After
a corporate merger and
acquisition,
McCarthy
decided she had had

enough of management.
“It was kind of a desk
job, and that was not my
personality
at
all,”
McCarthy said. “It did not
fit my nature.”
Practicing yoga with
Corigliano
helped
McCarthy realize that yoga
was her true passion. In
2000, she quit the management job at Frog’s and
founded Yoga NamaStacy,
the business she still runs
today.
Her business is all
about sharing yoga with
others, whether through her
“Yoga Body” instructional
DVDs, leading wellness
retreats, training other yoga
teachers or just leading
everyday practice.
Some of McCarthy’s
students have been practicing with her weekly for
almost 10 years. That loyalty is a testament to
McCarthy’s ability to be
consistent without boring
her students with the same
routine every week, said
Mandy
Burstein,
who
recently completed a 300hour yoga teacher training
program with McCarthy as
her mentor.
Her
success
also
reflects the personal connections and relationships

Cindy Shaub
Assistant Superintendent

ly voted to spend $117,000
on 246 new iPad 2 devices,
including
associated
cables and cases. Each
device has 16 GB of storage and Wi-Fi capability.
The purchase will
allow the R. Roger Rowe
School to assign a schoolowned iPad to every student in fifth through
eighth grade beginning
this fall. The school will
supply all other classrooms
with one iPad for every two
students.
The school began

be added to the stock of
410 iPads the school has
purchased in the last year.
While seventh- and
eighth-grade students are
expected to take their
iPads home for study and
homework
uses,
Superintendent
Lindy
Delaney said administrators have not yet decided
whether fifth- and sixthgrade students will be
allowed to take the devices
home next year.
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Museum. Kylie Dypvik, left, and Chase Herring strike a
pose as Paul Revere and John Hancock, respectively.
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With construction end in
sight, some seeing hope
David
Ogul
he sidewalks are
wider,
diagonal
parking spots more
plentiful and landscaped
medians more attractive.
But not every merchant on
Highway 101 in Solana
Beach is jumping for joy over
the imminent end of a $7 million street improvement
project that caused months
of traffic delays and chased
away an untold number of
customers.
In fact, some businesses
aren’t even around anymore.
They lost so many customers,
shutting their doors was the
only way to stop bleeding
money. With completion of
the project expected in June,
several remaining merchants

T

Pooh Bear character greets Emmanuel Ortiz, 5, of Oceanside, right. Oceanside police and firefighters, Save
our Streets community group, Vista Community Clinic, and North County Lifeline also attended the fair.
Photos by Promise Yee

Fair brings neighbors together
for a fun day in Libby Lake Park
By Promise Yee

OCEANSIDE — The
Libby Lake Community
Resource Fair was a bright spot
for a community that had two
neighborhood teens fatally
shot and two injured at Libby
Lake Park in March.
The
Neighborhood
Services Department, police,
firefighters, Save our Streets
community group, Vista
Community Clinic, and North
County Lifeline joined other
groups to give the neighborhood a day of fun and share
information on community
services May 11.
“Since the shooting, the
community has been quite hesitant about spending time at
the park, which is pretty sad
considering the fact that Libby
Lake Park probably has the
most beautiful scenery over
any other park in Oceanside,”
Jimmy Figueroa, REACH proj-

ect coordinator for Vista
Community Clinic, said.
The Resource Fair has
been held for numerous years.
This year the goal of the fair
was to give the community a
positive day in the park.
“The resource fair usually
takes place on the street, but
the city wanted to use this
opportunity to welcome the
community back to the park
and demonstrate to them that
this park belongs to the community,” Figueroa said.
“It’s a day for everyone to
enjoy,”
Louie
Chavez,
resource manager of the Libby
Lake Community Center, said.
“We’re willing do whatever we
can do to work together, work
out problems, and make it a
better place.”
Ballet folklorico dancers,
mariachi music, a Ronald
McDonald magic show, a giant
inflatable slide, free balloons

Chris Curio, 10, of Oceanside, gets a hand with his rod and reel from
firefighter engineer Mike Bowman. Firefighters and community police
officers enjoyed one on one time with residents at the Community
Resource Fair.

and a kids dance contest were
part of the fun.
Firefighters and community police officers had an
opportunity for some one-onone time with residents and
kids to share crime prevention
tips,pass out stickers and coloring books, and show children
how to fish.
“When it’s one on one
they feel more comfortable
coming up to us,” Dolce Fish,
police crime prevention specialist, said. “It’s a great event.
We just want to be there and
have fun with the kids.”
In addition to the community fair, park trees have been
trimmed and vegetation has
been removed from hillsides to
provide
clear
visibility.
Regular monthly community
meetings between residents,
community groups and police
continue to be held at Libby
Lake Community Center.

are still fuming, even though
city officials say they’ve gone
out of their way to address
concerns.
Solana Beach is hardly
alone in struggling to maintain harmony while trying to
improve a major corridor. In
the San Diego community of
Bird Rock, merchants bristled during construction
when La Jolla Boulevard was
narrowed and roundabouts
installed. A similar plan for
Del Mar’s main drag went
down in flames at the ballot
box in November. And the
proposed
Leucadia
Streetscape project on
Highway 101 has sparked
angry debate just north of
here.
As the old saying goes,
“I don’t have a dog in this
fight.” I don’t live in or work
for Solana Beach, and I don’t
own a business on Coast
Highway. To the city, fixing
up the thoroughfare was a

no-brainer. The project to
slow traffic on the street and
pretty it up and while making the 101 more bicycle and
pedestrian friendly was
funded through TransNet
funds derived from a voterapproved half-cent sales tax
for transportation projects
across the county.
By the time all the plantings are done, the number of
trees will have doubled to
more than 70. Perhaps best
of all will be a huge reduction in speeds and commuters looking for an alternative to bottlenecked
Interstate 5, now that
motorists will only have one
lane for themselves in each
direction (the other will be
shared with bicyclists).
As City Councilwoman
Lesa Heebner told me, “This
is a project that’s going to
enhance the businesses
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RANCHO SANTA FE NEWS
MAY 17, 2013

LNG exports could hurt
California recovery
By Thomas D. Elias

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Why I’m voting no on Prop A
By Lisa Shaffer

I want to limit development in
Encinitas, so I’m going to vote no
on Prop A. I appreciate that the
proponents believe the initiative
will be good for our community. I
understand that they are responding to past decisions and trying to
close what they see as loopholes.
But they also want to impose citywide development rules that
would undo some locally-defined
choices made by residents about
their own individual communities,
and I don’t agree with that. I also
have concerns about possible unintended consequences of the initiative.
I plan to vote no because:
Prop A is not needed to fix the
major loophole in the General
Plan. The council is in the process
of eliminating the General Plan
provision that allows four-fifths of
the council to approve any change
in density by declaring a “public
benefit” without a public vote. We
plan to submit this change and the
whole updated General Plan to a
public vote in 2014 so a future
council can’t undo the changes.
Prop A is not needed to fix this
problem.
Prop A would override the
“specific plans” that were worked

out by community groups to
enable unique zoning arrangements that serve the specific area
(Leucadia, Downtown, Cardiff).
Prop A would impact historic
preservation plans and undermine
unique community character decisions made by residents in each
neighborhood.
The requirement that more
projects would have to be decided
by a public vote is likely to result
in more high density development
rather than less, regardless of a
public vote (see below).
I want the council to have
time to develop a thoughtful,
coherent updated General Plan
that will be submitted to a public
vote once.
This will enable us to incorporate community input and fix problems from the past without burdening either property owners or
voters with special elections on
specific projects.
Why do I think the initiative
could lead to more development?
The reason: state density bonus
law. Regardless of what the
General Plan and the initiative
may say, if a developer includes
one or more affordable units in a
development, the city must allow
higher density and grant waivers

of development standards in most
cases, if requested. The harder we
make it for property owners to
build within our existing land use
policies, the more likely they are to
use the density bonus law to circumvent our constraints. Density
bonus waivers do not need a public
vote regardless of Prop. A.
There is uncertainty about the
impact of the Initiative on height
limits, but there is no question that
state density bonus law trumps
local codes. There are already several density bonus projects in our
community that do not fit well in
their neighborhoods. Prop A will
not prevent such projects – in fact
it could encourage more of them.
That would not be good for
Encinitas.
Encinitas has a new planning
director and a new council. Give us
a chance to fix the problems of the
past and set us on a strong, clear
path that encourages only development that enhances quality of life.
Your voices are being heard.
Things are changing. Let’s not
make it any more difficult to do
the right thing.
I am voting no on Proposition
A.
Lisa Shaffer is Deputy Mayor
of the City of Encinitas.

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California’s recovery has led
the nation for months in producing new jobs, even though it hasn’t yet come close to replacing
all those lost in the Great
Recession of 2009-11.
Low natural gas prices have
been one key element helping
California along.
They affect everything from
factory production to oil refineries, power plants, dairy farms
and citrus groves where fans
blew heat onto trees to keep
fruit from freezing during
January’s unusual cold snap.
This makes it mandatory for
Californians in Congress and
the Legislature to track the
strong campaign by natural gas
producers to export much of the
gas bonanza now being extracted everywhere from Northern
and Central California to
Wyoming, Montana, North
Dakota and Colorado.
This effort has strong implications here because natural gas
prices have been very low compared with just a few years ago.
For example, the late-January
price of natural gas at Henry
Hub in Louisiana, considered
the benchmark for the industry,
was about one-third of its 2008
level and well below the going
prices in every year since 2003.
Prices began dropping in
2009; just about the time
hydraulic fracturing (best
known as “fracking”) became
widespread. No, gas prices paid
by customers of big California
gas-providing utilities have not
plunged two-thirds, but that’s
because the wholesale cost of
gas accounts for slightly less
than half what we pay.
The rest of the price to customers comes from transportation and the cost of building and
maintaining pumps, storage
facilities and pipelines, plus a
profit percentage.
Californians have paid little
attention because no liquefied
natural gas (LNG) receiving
plants were built here during
the early and mid-2000s, when
potential gas importers made a
big push for them, claiming a
major shortage of domestic natural gas was about to hit.
Of course, fracking ended
any such threat, and the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) is currently entertaining nine proposals for either
building new facilities to do the
opposite — superfreeze natural
gas into a liquid state and ship it
around the world to countries
with gas shortages as LNG — or
convert onetime receiving
plants into export facilities.
The commission appeared
gung-ho to approve at least some
of these quickly before the lateApril explosion of two LNGbearing barges in Alabama. No
one knows how that will impact
decisions. Meanwhile, three
export applications are pending
in the Pacific Northwest, all on
sites once earmarked as importing plants.
These would unquestionably make gas exploration companies wealthy, while also causing the wholesale price of natural gas to rise again, perhaps
even to levels of the late ‘90s —

about three times today’s level.
The federal Department of
Energy concluded in a report
issued last December that, “for
every one of the market scenarios examined, net economic benefits increased as the level of
LNG exports increased.”
The report skimmed over
danger of explosions, even
though liquefying plants are
widely considered more dangerous than import facilities, where
LNG is warmed back into its
gaseous state.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Ron
Wyden of Oregon, site of two
current exporting proposals,
protested quickly that flaws in
the Energy Department study
“are numerous and render (it)
insufficient for the Department
of Energy to use in any export
determination.” The study was
conducted by a private consulting firm.
The Sierra Club also objected, as did the American Public
Gas Assn., which represents
many municipal utilities, which
buy natural gas.
Sierra Club objections are
that the Energy Department
report does not consider potential environmental harm from
increased fracking that would
follow the start of export operations, while also ignoring the
effects of the domestic natural
gas price increases that could
result from approving more LNG
exports than are already permitted.
But the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce maintains gas prices
must rise or the boom will soon
peter out. Said Chamber
President Thomas J. Donahue,
“If they don’t do something to
stimulate the price of gas a little, nothing will be taken out of
the ground. You can’t go around
the world demanding free, open
and transparent markets and
then not allow LNG exports. Our
significant energy resources
give us a chance to move on federal spending and taxes because
they can generate much more
government revenue.”
This, then, is no simple matter. Today’s historically low natural gas prices are good for
almost everyone in California.
But the chamber believes they
may soon eliminate incentives
for new production.
Meanwhile, residents near
proposed export facilities in
Oregon, as one example, are
fighting furiously to nix them
because of what they see as dangers of explosions and environmental damage when pipelines
bringing gas to the new plants
are built.
This quarrel has major
potential effects on California’s
economy, which means the
state’s Congressional delegation
— so far largely uninvolved —
has to get seriously engaged,
and soon.

Email Thomas Elias at
tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The
Burzynski Breakthrough: The
Most Promising Cancer Treatment
and the Government’s Campaign
to Squelch It,” is now available in
a soft cover fourth edition.
For more Elias columns, visit
californiafocus.net

Eric Munoz, Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation’s 2012 Volunteer of the Year, will be among those at Discovery
Gala 2013 May 18 at the Discovery Center in Carlsbad. This year's theme is Raiders of the Lost Lagoon,
Discover our Treasures.Munoz has played a major role in raising awareness about the destructive seaweed,
Caulerpa taxifolia, which almost forced the lagoon to close a few years ago. Photo by Lillian Cox

Lagoon volunteer to
be honored at gala
By Lillian Cox

CARLSBAD — Eric
Munoz, Agua Hedionda
Lagoon Foundation’s 2012
Volunteer of the Year, will
be
among
those
at
Discovery Gala 2013 beginning at 5:30 p.m., May 18 at
the Discovery Center in
Carlsbad. This
year’s
theme is Raiders of the
Lost Lagoon, Discover our
Treasures.
Munoz is a board member and past president of
the Agua Hedionda Lagoon
Foundation. He says his
passion for protecting the
lagoon began after the
destructive
seaweed,
Caulerpa taxifolia, was
found in June 2000 and he
realized how close the
lagoon came to being
closed. He explained that
the alga entered the lagoon
when someone emptied a
home aquarium at Hoover
Street.
“We were lucky to find
it early, and after five or six
years to get rid of it,” he
added. “If we had been
unsuccessful, it would have
resulted in displacing our
fisheries, ending fishing in
the lagoon and probably
stopping boating. If it had
traveled into the open
ocean it would have
become too large to successfully eradicate.”
The
lagoon
was
declared to be completely
free of Caulerpa taxifolia
on July 12, 2006. The following year Munoz worked
with
Carlsbad
Mayor
Buddy Lewis in establishing an annual Lagoon Day
to mark the event and raise
awareness about the importance of keeping the
lagoon pristine.
“Stand Up Paddling
(SUP) is a whole new sport
to emerge since the time
we declared the eradication of Caulerpa taxifolia,”
he said. “We have a beautiful resource and there are
so many people doing SUP.
I always tell them, ‘If you
like our lagoon why don’t

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you join our organization?’”
Actor
Christopher
Rich, star of the television
show, “Reba,” will serve as
emcee for the gala which
will begin with cocktails
from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. and a
jazz performance by Vince
Cooper. Appetizers will be
provided by The Canyons
Restaurant,
Carlsbad
Aquafarm,
Carlsbad
Chocolate Bar, Carlsbad
Edible
Arrangements,
Flippin Pizza, Kings Fish
House, Tommy V’s and
Gregorio’s.
Vigilucci’s restaurant
will begin serving plate
dinners in a large tent at 7
p.m. Beverages will be provided by Vesper Winery,
finely crafted beer by Lost
Abbey, Ballast Point Brew
and Venom Vodka (Snake
Bite cocktail).
Guests can expect
Indiana Jones to make an
appearance during the
event, and later climb into
a biplane and for a flyby at
the Discovery Center.
Other events include an
opportunity
to
play
Raiders of the Lost Lagoon
games, visit a snake pit led
by biologist Jordan Ahle
and bid on a selection of
silent auction treasurers.
“A cigarette girl will
be selling raffle tickets to
win a grand prize of a sterling silver necklace with a
diamond pendant,” said
Cindy Goodger, administrative assistant with the
Lagoon Foundation. “Other
raffle prizes will include a
guitar, a garden statue and
a gift from Jazzercise.”
A live auction will take
place along with game
prizes that include scuba
diving, hot air ballooning,
rock climbing and biplane
adventures as well as dinner for eight at the
Carlsbad Fire Department
that includes a tour.
Guests will dance to
music from the ‘70s, ‘80s
and ‘90s performed by
Fusion.

The evening’s honored
guests
include
the
Carlsbad
Educational
Foundation, San Diego
County
Board
of
Supervisors and North
Coast Church for their
efforts in raising funds
toward the Environmental
Stewardship Program, the
development of the interior exhibits and the refurbishing of both the outside
of the Discovery Center
building, as well as Hubbs
Trail.
The Agua Hedionda
Lagoon Foundation, a nonprofit 501c3, operates the
Discovery Center and
relies on support of the
community through membership
and
events.
Membership is $25. Tickets
to Discovery Gala 2013 are
$100 for members, and
$150 for prospective members and can be purchased
by calling (760) 804-1969.
The Discovery Center is
located at 1580 Cannon
Road in Carlsbad on the
eastern end of the lagoon.
For more information, visit
aguahedionda.org.
This year Lagoon Day
will take place July 20 with
a Tip Top Walk/Run, which
will include 2-mile, 5K and
10K segments. To register,
visit active.com.

A cogeneration facility will be built at Oceanside’s La Salina Wastewater Treatment Plant this summer. Energy purchased from the cogeneration facility operator will save the city about $41,000 annually. Photos by Promise Yee

Facility will save on energy bill
By Promise Yee

OCEANSIDE
—
Alternative energy sources
are adding up to big savings
for the city. Oceanside now
has three public private partnerships to purchase power
from facilities that provide
energy at lower rates than
SDG&E.
The newest alternative
energy source is the cogeneration facility that will be built
at Oceanside’s small La Salina
Wastewater Treatment Plant
beginning this summer. The
cogeneration facility captures
expelled methane gas from
wastewater treatment operations and converts it into
usable energy. The city then
buys the energy from the facility operator at a lower cost
than SDG&E charges. This
power purchase agreement is
estimated to save the city
about $41,000 annually.
CHPCE La Salina LLC,
a subsidiary of CHP Clean
Energy, is working in public
private partnership with the
city to build and operate the
cogenerator. This allows the
city to access lower priced
energy without investing a
dollar in the facility.
“We’re pretty excited to
bring this type of project to
the city,” Jason Dafforn,
water utilities division manager, said. “The public private partnership is almost
zero cost to the city. It gives

The cogeneration facility captures expelled methane gas from wastewater treatment operations and converts it into usable energy. The city
then buys the energy at a lower cost than SDG&E charges.

the city the opportunity to
simply buy power at a discounted rate from SDG&E
power.”
Cogenerators are specific to wastewater treatment
plant operations.
Another cogenerator
facility was built by CHP
Clean Energy at the San Luis
Rey Wastewater Treatment
Plant in December 2007. The
larger facility has saved the
city a whopping $335,000 a
year in energy bills. Due to
the proven benefits it provides the second cogenerator
at La Salina Wastewater
Treatment Plant was OK’d by
City Council May 1.
The San Luis Rey
Wastewater Treatment Plant
property also houses a Solar

Photo-Voltaic System that
produces electricity, which is
bought by the city. Solar Star
Oceanside LLC, a subsidiary
of SunPower, installed and
operates the solar field and
works in a public private
partnership with the city
that began in June 2012. The
solar system saves the city
$82,569 a year.
Dafforn said the city is
considering adding additional solar systems to city properties when technology
improves and the footprint of
solar systems becomes smaller.
“We continue to work
with local companies to provide that type of technology
to the level we see a benefit
to it,” Dafforn said.

DEL MAR — The 2013
San Diego County Fair will
feature many of the old
favorites, including deepfried just about anything,
and a few new events, such
as the Father’s Day Big
Bite Bacon Fest, because
everything tastes better
with bacon.
But perhaps the most
notable change to this
year’s fair is that the area
inside the gates has been
designated 100 percent
smoke-free.
With less than 12 percent of the state’s adult
population
identifying
themselves as smokers, the
ban has been in the works
for several years.
Restrictions on where
smokers could light up
have been phased in since
2009, but this is the first
year there will be no designated smoking areas once
fair-goers enter the gates.
The move earned the
22nd District Agricultural
Association, which governs
the fairgrounds, the Smoke
Free Star Award from the
San Diego Tobacco Free
Communities Coalition, a
partnership of agencies
and individuals who advocate for health and mobilize the community to
bring about change.
“It’s absolutely the
right thing to do,” fair
board President Adam Day
said at the May 7 meeting.
“I know it took a little
longer than some would
have liked.”
With “Game on!” as
its theme, this year’s fair
will spotlight how games
have evolved over the
years and include every-

thing from card, board and
video games to game
shows. There have been
rumors about ongoing
Family Feud contests and
a life-sized Operation
board.
There will be rides, of
course, plus beer, wine and
gospel festivals, comedy
nights and grandstand performances by entertainers
such as The Beach Boys on
opening day, Switchfoot,
Steve Miller Band, Train
and “American Idol” runner-up and San Diego
native Adam Lambert.
The fair runs June 8 to
July 4 and is open daily
except June 10, 17 and 24.
Tickets are $14 for adults,
$8 for anyone 62 and older
or between the ages of 6
and 12. Children younger
than 5 are free.
The Best Pass Ever is
available for $24 and provides unlimited admission
for the duration of the fair.
Rides and games are extra.
North County Transit
District is offering Fair
Tripper tickets for $15 that
include roundtrip transportation on the Coaster,
Sprinter or Breeze and
admission to the fair.
Free Shopper Shuttles
to Del Mar and Solana
Beach will run every half
hour from 11 a.m. to 11
p.m., allowing fair-goers to
take a break and visit,
shop and dine at the two
coastal cities.
This year’s must-try
(but perhaps only once)
culinary classics include
deep-fried cookie dough,
Krispy Cremé sloppy joes
and bacon beer.
Visit sdfair.com for
more information.

ENCINITAS — With nine
Starbucks in Encinitas, you’d
think the latte market was saturated. Despite an influx of
well-financed global chains and
a deep recession, local entrepreneurs like Lisa Gomolka
have proven to be as bold as a
ristretto shot.
Gomolka began working
for The Quick Fix, San Diego
County’s first espresso drivethru chain, in 1994.
In 2005, she bought out
the owner and closed the San
Marcos and Oceanside shops.
Six weeks ago she closed the
third store at 136 Encinitas
Blvd. Today, one store remains
at 552 Santa Fe Drive.
“The best thing I did was
to close the other shop,” she
said. “The Santa Fe store has
always been the busiest one
and a lot of customers from
Encinitas Boulevard come here
now.”
During the morning commute there’s typically a waiting
line of five cars on both sides of
her tiny drive-thru.The top seller is a mocha latte using a
homemade recipe.
When gas prices rose, and
business declined, Gomolka
laid off her employees and
picked up the extra hours herself.Business turned around six
months ago which she attributes partially to being there
more herself.
“My customers will drive
up and I can see them looking
for my car,” she said. “I have
watched them grow from
babies, in their car seats, to
teenagers. There were times
when business was really tough
and I thought, ‘How am I going
to do it?’ but it’s been worth it. I
have no regrets.’”
Scott Thompson has lived
in Encinitas so long that he
remembers when Leucadia
Boulevard was called Woodley
Road. He worked with his parents, David and Karen
Thompson, in the family business, Thompson’s Roses. Then
he became a homebuilder. In
2006, he purchased Lil' Jungle
Java at 1500 Encinitas Blvd.
and ran it with a staff of five
until the crash in October 2008.
“Four dollar lattes are
something people don’t buy
when they are out of work,” he
said. “The flower business was
the same way.”
Thompson responded by
following advice from his late
father: “Keep quality high, customers happy and work hard.”

"I'm so proud of her," said Scott Thompson, owner of Lil Jungle Java Drive Thru, referring to daughter, Tiana.
When the economy crashed in 2009, business plummeted and he was forced to lay off his employees.
Thompson brought Tiana onboard, who was only 19 at the time, after she was laid off from her own job. Tiana
proved to be so indispensable that she's now his partner. Her dog, Lola, is also part of the team. Thompson
said business has gone up 30 percent since the beginning of the year. Photos by Lillian Cox

Danielle Stewart and husband/partner Sean Sbrega who own Global
Grind coffee stand at the Encinitas Library. “Everybody says, ‘You’re
always working.’ It’s because we love what we do,” she said.

He increased quality by
offering organic coffee without
raising prices, then brought
daughter, Tiana, 18, onboard
after she was laid off.
Thompson credits Tiana, now
his partner, with helping to
increase business by 30 percent
since January.

Tiana, who is transferring
from MiraCosta College to Cal
State San Marcos this fall, has
learned valuable lessons since
riding out the economic rollercoaster.
“My biggest fear is ruining my credit and falling into
debt,” she said. “My goal is to

be able to take care of my family when I have one and to take
care of this business and
expand once we turn more of a
profit.”
Their biggest sellers are
mocha and vanilla latte.
Even
though
Scott
Thompson made more money
as a builder, he prefers coffee
customers to homeowners.
“Ninety-nine percent of them
are awesome,” he said.
Danielle Stewart wanted
to be a businesswoman since
growing up in Saratoga, Calif.
After earning a business
degree, she moved to San
Diego and found herself working in the mortgage industry
till the housing bubble burst.
“I was going to get into
real estate land sales and was
studying for my Series 7 license
at the Encinitas Library in
January 2009 and wondering
where my life was going,” she
recalled. “I told my neighbor, ‘I
don’t even like finance. Why
couldn’t I sell coffee?”
The neighbor told her that
the city of Encinitas was soliciting bids for a coffee cart at the
new library. Stewart won the
bid. A self-proclaimed hippie,
she recruited her brother, a
general contractor in Bend,
Ore., to build a cart from
reclaimed materials. Global
Grind opened in May 2009.
Stewart works with husband/partner, Shawn Sbrega,
and friends, using locallysourced vendors including Café
Moto which provides organic
and free trade coffee and
Encinitas pastry chef Nikki
Schaeffer.
Popular
drinks
are
Moonlight
Mocha,
the
Peterman (chai latte with
espresso) and Janis Joplin (two
or three shots of espresso and
coffee). “It makes you scream,”
she said, smiling.
Today, Stewart said she is
‘living the dream.’
“It’s about living in
Encinitas and not having to get
on the freeway,” she said.“Now
I’m working to live, not living to
work.”

RANCHO SANTA FE NEWS

MAY 17, 2013

Spring
Fling time
in Cardiff
CARDIFF-BY-THE-SEA
— Cardiff 101 Main Street
invites the community to celebrate spring and sustainable
gardening practices by
attending a volunteer planting day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
May 18 at Carpentier
Parkway along San Elijo
Avenue. The mission of
Carpentier Parkway is to promote our public, organic, sustainable, water wise, floral
park in downtown Cardiff-bythe-Sea.
Looking to get involved?
Volunteers are asked to visit
cardiff101.com/?page_id=106
6 for more information. We
look forward to celebrating
spring with you at Carpentier
Parkway! Spring Fling is the
perfect time to become part
of history and sponsor a brick
or paver at Carpentier
Parkway’s
Inspirational
Terrace
for
Cardiff’s
Centennial
Celebration.
Sponsor a brick for just $65 or
a flagstone paver from $180.
For more details, visit
cardiff101.com/?page_id=588.
What was once a vacant
lot paralleling the railroad
train
tracks
between
Birmingham Drive and
Chesterfield Drive has been
transformed by beautiful sustainable landscaping and a
trail for all to enjoy.
Carpentier Parkway has
been featured in San Diego
Home/Garden Lifestyles,
Sunset Magazine’s Fresh Dirt
blog and local newspapers,
and serves as an example of
what can be done with an
unoccupied dirt lot to
improve and beautify a
downtown area.

Officers
trade for
guns
SAN MARCOS — If you
have an unwanted gun, you
can turn it in and get a gift
card in return, no questions
asked.
The
San
Marcos
Sheriff's Station is hosting a
Guns for Gift Cards event 8
a.m. to 1 p.m. May 18 at 182
Santar Place, San Marcos.
$50 will be given for shotguns, handguns and rifles
and $150 for assault
weapons. There is a limit of
$150 worth of Walmart gift
cards per vehicle.
The
Sheriff’s
Department will utilize asset
forfeiture funds to purchase
the gift cards.Anyone participating should place the
unloaded firearms in the
trunk of their cars. A uniformed deputy or officer will
give instructions at the location. All weapons collected
will be destroyed.
This event is being held
in partnership with the
Oceanside
Police
Department, Carlsbad Police
Department and the Palomar
College Police Department,
Vista Sheriff's Station,
District Attorney's Office and
the
Escondido
Police
Department

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Upgrade project uncovers slice of local history
By Bianca Kaplanek

SOLANA BEACH — A
little bit of Solana Beach history has been revealed as the
yearlong improvement project along Coast Highway 101
nears completion.
While remodeling the
building at 247 and 249 S.
Coast Hwy. 101, the property
owner removed some old
shingles and discovered a
sign for Town & Country
Laundromat, offering a 15pound wash for 25 cents.
According to historians,
the business dates back to
the 1940s. Rumor has it
sailors used the laundromat
restroom as they traveled
from Oceanside to San
Diego.
The first part of the
building at 247 S. Coast Hwy.
101 was built in the 1930s.
Originally The Teddy Bear
Restaurant — the word
“sandwich” can be faintly
seen on the stucco now — the
north end of the property
now houses Rancho Solana
Pet Spa.
The other half of the
property at 249 S. Coast Hwy.
101 was constructed about 10
years later.
Mailboxes Etc. moved

As part of the ongoing Coast Highway 101 improvement project, the property owner for 247 and 249 S. Coast Hwy. 101 removed the shingles
under the existing signs and discovered the nearly 70-year-old signage for a previous business at the site. Photo courtesy of Carl Turnbull

Carl Turnbull, property onto the concrete. He said UPS Store before June 1.
into that site in October
“I wish we could pre1980. It was converted to The manager, said the laundro- the plan is to stucco over it to
mat sign is painted directly create a new sign for The serve it,” Turnbull said.
UPS Store in about 2004.

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Guild members’
art chosen for fair
RANCHO SANTA FE —
Art by members of the Rancho
Santa Fe Art Guild has been
selected to display in the Fine
Art Exhibition at the 2013 San
Diego County Fair, including
pieces by Manss Aval, Cindy
Klong, Lei Tang, Toni Williams
and Kim Wilkins.
The San Diego County
Fair’s annual Fine Art
Exhibition is recognized as
one of San Diego County’s significant showcases for both
emerging and mid-career
Rancho Santa Fe Art Guild member Manss Aval’s “Into a Dream” was
among pieces chosen to hang at the San Diego County Fair through
June 9.

San Diego

artists in San Diego County.
The 2013 San Diego County
Fair Fine Art Exhibition will
be part of the fair from June 8
to July 9. For additional
details, see sdfai.com.
The Rancho Santa Fe
Guild Art Gallery is at 6004
Paseo Delicias. Gallery hours
are Tuesday 10:30 to 1 p.m.;
Wednesday through Friday 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Closed Sunday and
Monday. For more information, call (858) 759-3545.

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Wine country comes to Leucadia with Solterra Winery
DAVID
BOYLAN
Lick the Plate
If there is one establishment that we look back on
years from now, that changed
the face of eating and drinking
in Leucadia it’s probably safe
to say that is Solterra Winery &
Kitchen. Solterra is a stunning
work of architecture that combines contemporary design yet
rustic warmth. There are two

buildings on site, the tasting
room that was built in 1957
which is 1,600 square feet and
the new 3,400 square foot
building, which houses the
winery. The concept was to
respect the aesthetics of the
original building but tie into it
with a new and more modern
building for winemaking and
barrel storage. There is always
the potential for pretension
around wine but I didn’t feel
that, Solterra feels like it
belongs in Leucadia.
If anyone had the wine
pedigree to pull something like
this it is the proprietor Chris

Van Alyea. Chris attended the
University of Oregon where he
received a bachelor’s degree in
geography and Spanish. It was
there where he grew an appreciation for great beer but it was
his first glass of Zinfandel from
a Dry Creek Winery a few
years later that truly altered
his life path. He soon thereafter went to work in wine
sales with a large distributor,
and more importantly it was
around this time he started to
produce his own small lots of
wine from the family vineyard
located in Sonoma County.
Since his first vintage in

1999 he has worked at wineries
in Sonoma and San Diego
counties and in 2002, he
released the first vintage of a
Christopher
Cameron
Vineyards wine and in 2006
developed the Costa Azul
brand. His wines were produced in Sonoma County from
2002-05 and began all of his
winemaking in San Diego with
the 2006 vintage.
I had a conversation with
Chris shortly after Solterra
opened about how this whole
endeavor came to be.
LTP: You grew up around
wine in a vineyard in Sonoma.

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Did you know at an early age
that this was a path that you
wanted to take?
Chris: Wish it were the
case but truly my appreciation
of wine really hit me after tasting a zinfandel from Dry creek
when I was 25. My first batch
that I made (chardonnay)
turned out palatable and tasty
and was completely hooked
after that.
LTP: What kind of food
was you exposed to growing
up?
Chris: Mostly California
cuisine. Love the concept of
sharing plates - the concept
seems absent in the US except
in local sushi or Chinese
restaurants but the Spanish
have been dining like this for
centuries.
LTP: Solterra Winery
opened 11 years after your first
commercial vintage. What led
you to Leucadia as its location?
Chris: I moved to
Encinitas 10 years ago and
truly think that Leucadia is
one of the coolest communities in the country. I really like
the laid-back lifestyle and people that live here yet there is
also an appreciation for quality without pretension.
LTP: It’s a beautiful building, what was the inspiration
behind it?
Chris: I really wanted to
retain the old feel of the original building that was built in
1957.We tied in the new building and it’s more modern elements i.e. the roofline and
stainless steel tanks. It was
great working with Brian
Church the architect as he
designed the place with a lot of
clean lines.
LTP: Food is going to be a
big draw at Solterra, and you
have brought in a world class
chef in Morgan Bunnell. What
is his background?
Chris: Chef Morgan
Bunnell worked in five-star
restaurants and opened what
would become one of the top
restaurants on the big Island of
Hawaii. He was also voted top
chef on the big Island by the
readers in the local newspaper.
One of his priorities is purchasing local produce and meats
which was important to me
LTP: Tell me a bit about

Solterra Winery & Kitchen proprietor Chris Van Alyea grew an
appreciation for great beer, but it
was his first glass of Zinfandel from
a Dry Creek Winery a few years
later that truly altered his life path.
Photo courtesy of Solterra Winery &
Kitchen

the menu, is it a collaboration
between you and chef
Bunnell?
Chris: I lived in Spain and
really liked some of dishes
which felt would be a good fit
on the menu but Morgan also
had a lot of input into the
menu as well. A lot of my
wines have complexity to them
which compliment flavorful
Spanish cuisine.The climate in
Spain is very similar to here
and we grow a lot of the same
produce so it seemed like a
good fit.
LTP: Will you be having
special wine events and dinners at Solterra?
Chris: There will be wine
dinners on occasion especially
when wines are released and I
will work closely with Chef
Bunnell to develop menus that
work with the wine.
Solterra
Winery
&
Kitchen is located at 934 North
Coast Hwy 101, Leucadia, CA
92024.Visit solterrawinery.com
for hours and menu.
Lick the Plate can now be heard on
KPRi, 102.1 FM Monday-Friday
during the 7pm hour.
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MAY 17, 2013

F OOD &W INE

Winemaker makes it right with Hiatus
FRANK
MANGIO

Taste of Wine
The man on the move
with Napa Valley wines that
are making a solid statement
is Mark Davidowski.
Mark was the guiding
force behind the highly successful (and it still is) Meritage
Wine Market in Encinitas,
which he started in 2002 after
a successful run as a tech specialist and wine distributor.
He implemented revolutionary strategy for a wine shop at
that time, bringing in wine
makers, producing major benefit wine events and establishing relationships with overseas
wineries, so much so, they
came to Meritage just to hang
out and pour wine at its festive
wine bar. But Mark did a disappearing act a few years ago
to bury himself in winemaking
Napa Valley style, and a year
or so ago emerged as the
proud proprietor of Hiatus
Cellars, with five varietals and
blends, now offering his second series of releases. He was
“back at the shop” a couple of
months ago at Meritage, pouring his 2011 Sonoma Coast
Pinot Noir ($48), 2010 Apex
Napa Valley Cabernet Red
Blend $80), 2010 Napa Valley
Chardonnay ($27), 2007
Hiatus Red Syrah Blend $40)
and the 2009 Napa Valley
Cabernet ($50).
The wines I make are
about all the relationships I
have developed with vineyards in Napa and Sonoma for
the past decade and more,”

Davidowski revealed. “I really
work hard to find and take
ownership of the finest grapes
I can find. Once fermented, I
take over and start with the
blending; I already know what
the flavor will be for the block
of grapes I get for Hiatus. I
work closely with the vineyard’s top winemakers to
make wine on site to my specs.
I’m on a first name basis with
Paul Hobbs and other greats to
make my style of wine. I love
elegance in an earthy style,
like the best Burgundies.”
I asked him about his
2007 Hiatus Red which blew
me away. “ The grapes are
from the Pope Valley with a
rich and powerful thrust from
the 39 percent Syrah. I put Cab
Franc in for flavor. I needed a
lift for the blend so I put a
small but potent percent of
Zinfandel in and made it that
much richer and bigger,” he
concluded.
Get to know Mark
Davidowski and Hiatus at hiatuscellars.com.

Wine of the Month

Eric Hickey, President
and Winemaker at Laetitia
Vineyard and Winery
swears it’s a pure Pinot Noir
when the deep purple hue
of wine is poured from the
bottle. No Syrah needed for
color here.
2011 was a challenging
year for growers, but
through fruit managing, an
elegant wine of exceptional
character was made.

The winery

2011 Laetitia
Estate Pinot
Noir
About this wine

Wines from Down
Under at Villa Capri 2
My good friend Victor
Magalhaes is riding high these
days with his successful Villa
Capri 2 among several other
Italian restaurants along the
Carmel Valley 56 corridor in
San Diego. If that were not
enough he just bought Twisted
Vine Wine Bar in the same
area.
When I caught up with
him, he introduced me to
Mark Salter, the Southwest
Sales Director for Australian
wines, with a few in France,
Italy, New Zealand and the
U.S. west coast. At Villa Capri
2, he was singing the praises of
the signature wines of

d’Arenberg is shown on the
left, with restaurant owner
Victor Magalhaes.
McLaren Valley of South
Australia. The ones that broke
through on taste and body
were the 2009 Custodian
Grenache ($17.50), the 2010
Footbolt Shiraz ($17.50) and
the 2009 Cadenza Blend
(Grenache,
Shiraz
and
Mourvedre ( $23). See more
events at villacapri2.com.

Wine Bytes
Vintana
Restaurant
Escondido is celebrating its
one-year anniversary May 19
starting at 2:30 p.m. Enjoy
wine tasting, hosted Hors
d’oeuvres and live music. Meet
Executive Chef Deborah
Scott. RSVP a must at (760)
745-7777.
North County Wine
Company in San Marcos offers
a tasting event from Hendry
Napa Valley, May 17 from 4 to
10 p.m. Cost is $15. Wine rep
Jacquee Renna appears. (760)
744-2119.
Europa Village Winery in
Temecula presents a mystery
dinner theatre, “Murder on
the Oriental Rug,” May 18 and
May 19 starting at 6 p.m.
Broadway costumes encouraged. Tickets $59. For RSVP’s
contact (951) 216-3380.
Vin Opera, a wine and
music paired dinner happens
at Acqua Al 2 on 5th Ave.
Gaslamp San Diego, May 22 at
7 p.m. Four-course dinner with
Italian wines and opera. Cost
is $70. RSVP at (619) 230-0382.
Frank Mangio is a renowned wine connoisseur certified by Wine Spectator.
His library can be viewed at www.tasteofwinetv.com. (Average Google certified
900 visits per day) He is one of the top
Mark Davidowski pours a pop of his 2009 Hiatus Napa Valley 2009 five wine commentators on the Web.
Cabernet. Photo courtesy of Haitus Winery
Reach him at mangiompc@aol.com.

Hidden in the Santa
Barbara County Mountains,
it’s cool and coastal in the
vineyards that produce this
dark Pinot Noir at elevations ranging from 2,200 to
3,400 feet above sea level.
Dramatic swings in
temperatures can be as
high as 50 degrees in 24
hours.

Located in the Arroyo
Grande Valley AVA in Santa
Barbara County. Founded
in 1982 by a French
Champagne house, the winery carries on the traditions
of
Burgundy
and
Champagne with its small
lot Pinot Noirs and
Sparkling wines. Learn
more at LaetitiaWine.com

Cost
Available at North
County Wine Company in
San Marcos.
The current release is
2011 with the Laetitia
Arroyo Grande Estate Pinot
Noir selling for $19.97.
Call (760) 744-2119.

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Girls Club of San Marcos for
Explorer Summer Day Camp
from June 12-August 9! The
Club offers a great variety of
fun, weekly-themed, and educational activities including
science, technology, engineering, math, arts and crafts,
sports, computers, games
room and much more. The
annual membership fee is

$40. The general Summer
Day Camp weekly fee is $70
per Club member with no
field trips included. For Club
members 7-9 years old who
want to sign up for the Field
Trip Adventures, the price is
$90/week and includes 1 field
trip per week primarily on
Wednesdays. For Club members 10 years old and up who
want to sign up for the Field
Trip Adventures, the price is
$100/week and includes 2
field trips per week on
Tuesdays and Thursdays. The
Summer Day Camp program
is open Monday - Friday, 6:30
a.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7:00 p.m. Members

must be at least 6 years old
and enrolled in first grade.
Our Summer registration
packets are available today at
the front desk of the Jennifer
Loscher Branch (1 Positive
Place, San Marcos 92069) and
also can be found online at
www.boysgirlsclubsm.org.
Scholarships are available.
Annual memberships are
valid July 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; June 30. For
additional assistance please
call (760) 471-2490 x 300 or
email Outreach & Area
Director, Jack Nguyen at
jack@boysgirlsclubsm.org.
Register today as space is limited!

We offer a variety of athletic camps
that cater to all levels of ability
â&#x2013; We focus on

fundamentals
Whether you are just a
beginner or a highly experienced athlete, focused on
one sport or a participant in
many, Pacific Ridge School
has the program for you.
This year, Pacific Ridge
Summer Programs will
offer a variety of athletic
camps that cater to all levels of ability.
Most programs will be
open to rising 5th through
12th grade student-ath-

letes. All will be coached
by Pacific Ridgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talented,
energetic and experienced
head coaches. Camps will
focus on fundamentals and
individual skill development along with game strategy.
They will be fast-paced
and fun, and will emphasize
teamwork, positive attitude
and character development.
Along with these exciting
offerings, Pacific Ridge is
proud to be hosting co-ed
basketball camps by both
Nike and Chase Budinger,
NBA star of the Minnesota
Timberwolves.

Goals of Pacific Ridge
School Athletics

â&#x20AC;˘ Develop an "Honor
the Game" culture
â&#x20AC;˘ Emphasize character
education and teach lifelong lessons through sports
â&#x20AC;˘ Prepare young athletes for success in life on
and off the fields and
courts
â&#x20AC;˘ Increase school spirit
and pride through interscholastic competition
For more information,
please visit www.pacificridge.org and click on
Summer Programs.

Winner of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Red Tricycle Award...

Most Awesome Camp for Kids
What does it take to
create an award-winning
summer camp that features
a week spent with top-notch
art instructors and farm animals in an outdoor woodland setting?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of advance planning,â&#x20AC;? said Carlsbad Art
Farm Founder and Director
Perrin Weston. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is
to immerse students in a
highly enjoyable world
apart, where they leave
behind the cell phones and
video games for a week to
concentrate on the natural
world while learning new
art techniques. That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
just happen.â&#x20AC;?
Westonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal each year
is to create a weeklong
camp experience designed
for mature elementary and
middle school students.
While early education art
programs focus primarily on
â&#x20AC;&#x153;processâ&#x20AC;? versus â&#x20AC;&#x153;productâ&#x20AC;?,
Weston believes that students in Grades 2 and up
are ready for more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It
becomes frustrating to
these students who want to
draw representationally or
paint with some authority,
but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no one there to
tell them how to go about
doing that,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
one of the reasons older
kids stop making art. They
think making art is magic
and they are just no good at
it, so they give up. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not
magic.
Like anything else done
well, it takes study and practice and time. And good
teachers.â&#x20AC;?

Westonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
team
of
instructors
are
highly
trained working artists with
areas of specialty such as
figurative and animal drawing and painting, animation
and illustration, and photography. Weston starts working with her instructors in
February to develop a rich
summer camp curriculum
that is a balance of skill
building, animal encounters, and structured horsing
around.
Mornings are about
studying drawing and painting, while afternoons are
devoted to craft-oriented
projects and free time on
Art Farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10-acres of riparian habitat.
Students are divided
into three groups by grade
level and are taught in separate outdoor classrooms.
Each age group has a special activity. This summer,
the oldest group â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alpacasâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; will learn to
draw a human model,
dressed like Johnny Depp in
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pirates of the Caribbeanâ&#x20AC;?,
as well as animals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids
this age who are starting to
get into graphic novels and
other art forms involving
the human form want to
know how to draw faces and
clothing
realistically,â&#x20AC;?
Weston said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This will give
them a nice introduction to
how artists do that, whether
they are doing it with charcoal or on a high-tech drawing tablet.â&#x20AC;?
The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goatâ&#x20AC;? group will
be engaged in turning their

classroom tent into a diorama during their week at Art
Farm, depicting an animal
habitat. The youngest group
of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spotted Donkeysâ&#x20AC;?,
which is for students entering Grade 2 next fall, will be
working on the ever-popular
fairy and gnome village
installation.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This involves painting
fairy houses, creating 3-D
imaginary pets for the
fairies, and growing a lollipop garden using magic
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art Farm seeds,â&#x20AC;? Weston
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The lollipop garden is
pure fun. At the end of the
week they get to harvest
their crop.â&#x20AC;?
Both the Goat and
Alpaca groups will work on
animal murals and participate in Art Farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Friday
Origami Boat Pageant and
Races. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Students last summer produced some origami
boats that were museum
pieces,â&#x20AC;? Weston said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They
were painted in acrylic, a
plastic-based paint that
makes the paper boats
buoyant, and decorated
with found objects, decorative paper, feathers, you
name it. There was one that
was
a
fire-breathing
Chinese dragon with wings.
It was gorgeous.â&#x20AC;?
For more information
about Carlsbad Art Farm camps
and for online enrollment, visit
www.CarlsbadArtFarm.com
While there, click the Facebook
page to see day-to-day happenings at Art Farm. Camps begin
June 17 and continue to midAugust.

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MAY 17, 2013

RANCHO SANTA FE NEWS

S UMMER O PPORTUNITIES

Learn. Laugh. Grow.
■ At

Each student leaves as an
independent, resourceful thinker
with a lifelong love of learning.

Del Mar Pines, we
believe the elementary
school years are the most
formative of a child's life.
For over thrirty years
we've challenged the
minds and engaged the
hearts of our students by Give your child the start he/she deserves:
encouraging a thirst for
knowledge and an inquisi- - Small instructional groups
tive spirit. Our goal for
- Instruction in music, art, physical education,
each student is to leave
computer science, library, Spanish, and hands-on
Del Mar Pines school as an
science.
independent, resourceful
thinker with a lifelong - Integration of technology throug the use of oneto-one iPads and Macbooks
love of learning.

Student wins internship Spanjian Family Scholarship created
summer to work at the
International
Potato
Center (CIP) in Lima.
There he will delve
into issues relating to
hunger
and
poverty
throughout the world during the eight-week, allexpenses-paid session.
“It is our hope that by
engaging these young people in actual hunger-fight-

ing research, they will be
inspired to pursue academic and career paths in science, food, agricultural and
natural resource disciplines, and thus prepared
to become tomorrow’s innovative
scientific
and
humanitarian leaders,” said
Amb. Kenneth M. Quinn,
president of the World Food
Prize.

ing from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
May 25 at 919 Lomas Santa
Fe, Solana Beach. A portion
of the proceeds will go to the
American Cancer Society.
Business news and special Enjoy a Mariachi band, food
samples and enter the raffle.
achievements for
$10 or more between
North San Diego County. Spend
May 20 and May 25 and
Send information via email to receive a raffle ticket.

Phi Kappa Phi initiated
North County students:
— Magdalena Rohling
of Encinitas, at Kansas
State University
— Chadley Huebner of
Carlsbad at San Diego
State University
— Melissa Wolkon of
Solana Beach at San Diego
State University
— Elle Warehall of
Solana Beach at San Diego
State University
— Ryan Friedman of
Solana Beach at San Diego
State University
— Olivia Goldenhersh
of Rancho Santa Fe at
University
of
Wisconsin–Madison
— Matthew Lowe of
Carlsbad at California
State
University,
Sacramento.

CARMEL VALLEY —
DoWon Kim, a junior at
Torrey Pines High School,
will go abroad this summer
to gain firsthand experience at an international
research center, working to
alleviate global hunger.
Kim earned a World
Food Prize Borlaug-Ruan
International internship
and will travel to Peru this

Who’s
NEWS?

community@
coastnewsgroup.com.

TPHS drama winners
Torrey Pines High
School students brought
home prizes from the March
15 Fullerton College Theatre
Festival. Edoardo Benzoni
won second place - Classical
Monologue (“Two Noble
Kinsmen”), Maya Pilevsky
placed third for e Lighting
Design
“Serjeant
Musgrave’s Dance” and
Charlie Yang took first place
for Scenic Design - “Serjeant
Musgrave’s Dance,” Jien Sun
and Merle Jeromin placed
first in Costume Design “Company” and Meghan
Pickwell
and
Bridget
Bergman earned a first-place
for Make-up Design “Serjeant
Musgraves’s
Dance.”

New Yoga Six
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
May 19 celebrate the grand
opening of Yoga Six at
16625 Dove Canyon Road,
in 4S Ranch with free yoga
classes at noon and 2 p.m. In
addition to hot, classical and
vinyasa yoga, Yoga Six offers
Stand Up Paddle Board Yoga
and Barre, Sculpt and Shred
classes.

Sweet music
Torrey Pines High
School Advanced Orchestra
earned a unanimous superior
rating in class AA (collegiate
level) at competition March
7. Wind Ensemble and
Intermediate
Orchestra
received two excellent ratings and two superiors.

Keep kids fit

Jazzercise, Inc. is hosting Kids Get Fit, a free
community outreach program designed to help
school districts promote
kids’ fitness as a way of
life.More than 500 Kids
Get Fit events are already
Fair Trade cuts ribbon scheduled in 10 countries.
Fair Trade Décor, 1412
Primo’s opening
Camino Del Mar, opened Novelist earns gold
Celebrate
Primo’s May 11 in Del Mar with a ribEncinitas
novelist
Mexican Food’s grand open- bon-cutting with the Del Mar Edward Cozza for his book,
Mayor. The store hours will “Nowhere Yet” won Gold in
be daily 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.Visit the 2013 Independent
fairtradedecor.com or call Publishers Book Awards in
the Best Regional Fiction (858) 461-1263.
West Pacific category.

SKINS expands

SKINS
Compression
Clothing, 364 Second St.,
Suite 6, Encinitas, has named
Ben Harper as Channel
Manager for the Endurance
and Winter Sports business.
For more information, visit
the brand online at skins.net.

Meal for military

On May 22, Chick-fil-A
restaurants
across
Southern California (52
total) will honor their community’s military personnel – and their families –
by offering a free meal
from 4 to 7 p.m., along with
Super scholars
a host of events at each
The Honor Society of location.

DEL MAR — The Don
Diego
Scholarship
Foundation has created an
endowment Spanjian Family
Scholarship to create a legacy
honoring
Robert
Spanjian, a Don Diego
founder who has served as
Secretary-Treasurer since
the Foundation’s establishment in 1986.
A nonprofit arm of the
San Diego County Fair, the
Don Diego Scholarship
Foundation is sponsored by
the
22nd
District
Agricultural Association, on
whose governor-appointed
board of directors Spanjian
served as president and
member from 1988 to 1992.
Propelled by Spanjian’s
vision, passion for education,
leadership skills, business
acumen and continued financial support, the Foundation
has awarded more than
$575,000 in college scholarships and grants for agricultural education since 1986.
Typically, the Foundation
annually awards four $5,000
scholarship to students in the
categories of 4-H member,
FFA member, fair exhibitor
and fairgrounds employee.
Foundation Chairman
Paul Ecke III, also a founding
Don Diego member, said, “We
intend to use the Spanjian
Family Scholarship to augment one scholarship each
year, providing the ‘crème de
la crème’ student with an
added $5,000 Spanjian
Family Scholarship for a total
of $10,000.We hope to raise a
substantial amount of money
in Bob’s name so we can fund
this additional $5,000 per
year contribution to an
exceptional student’s education in perpetuity.”
Spanjian
Family
Scholarship donors can make
a one-time gift or multi-year
pledge by contacting Ecke at
paulecke3@icloud.com or
Executive Director Chana
Mannen
at
cmannen@sdfair.com or 858792-4210. Donors will be recognized at the June 15, 2013
Don Diego Dinner and Steve
Miller Band Concert Gala at
the San Diego County Fair
and in publicity.
Spanjian’s penchant for
visionary innovation began as
a young adult when he and
his brother, Richard, entered
their parents’ fabric design

business after their father
suffered a heart attack in
1946. Knowing the Spanjians
excelled in knitting, DuPont
approached the familyowned Chicago business in
1955 with a stretchy piece of
fabric dubbed Fiber K, seeking help in development. The
Spanjians developed what
became an iconic material
now worn ubiquitously
throughout the sports world,
inventing machinery to
process the revolutionary
apparel. In appreciation,
DuPont named the fabric in
their honor. Thus, Spandex –
which also is an anagram of
the word “expands” – was
born.
Based on Spandex,
Spanjian Sportswear became
a leader in its field, producing uniforms for hundreds of
college and professional
teams.The brothers eventually
moved
Spanjian
Sportswear to San Marcos,
and Spanjian and his wife,
Betty, raised a family in
Rancho Santa Fe. They sold
the company in 1985.
Spanjian quietly but
energetically applied his
leadership skills to improving
his community by donating
time, talents and money to
charitable causes in San
Diego County. After the 1984
death of Tom Hernandez,
Spanjian spearheaded an
effort to hire an artist to
sculpt the Don Diego statue
that continues to welcome
visitors to the fairgrounds. In
addition to his service with

Don Diego and the 22nd
District
Agricultural
Association, he served on the
board of the President’s
Executive Council for Cal
State San Marcos, on the
Board of Overseers for UCSD
and also was founder and
president of San Marcos
National Bank, 1985-1994.
Chana Mannen, who has
served as Executive Director
of the Don Diego Scholarship
Foundation since its inception, said, “Throughout his
years of service to Don Diego,
Bob has always relished his
role in interviewing finalists
for the annual scholarships.
He has frequently dipped
into his pocket to fund the
education of an additional
student who impressed him.
He has been a true friend of
the Foundation and the
Fairgrounds, and has contributed greatly to the quality of life in our region. We are
very happy to create this tribute to Bob in a format that
has always gratified him
immensely: providing scholarships that help transform
the lives of outstanding students who one day may transform their community, and
perhaps the world.”
The Foundation was
named after Tom Hernandez,
who served as the fair’s goodwill ambassador from 19471984. For more information,
visit dondiegoscholarship.org
and follow Don Diego at facebook.com/#!/pages/DonDiego-ScholarshipFoundation/140722662654337.

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RANCHO SANTA FE NEWS

MAY 17, 2013

TPHS students place well at fair

SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
Santa Fe Christian Schools Eagle Scholarship winner Caleb Phillips gets congratulations from
Chairman of SFCS Board of Directors Bill Littlejohn. Encinitas resident Phillips, an incoming
freshman, was selected for his character, academic promise and leadership ability. He is looking most forward to playing football for Santa Fe. The Eagle Scholarship is valued at $70,000,
covering full tuition and most expenses for four years of high school. Courtesy photo

A quickie to Puerto Vallarta
JOE
MORIS
Baby Boomer Peace
My friends from La
Mesa just got back from a
quick trip to Puerto Vallarta.
They have the condo two
doors down from mine. They
said the weather was perfect
and the 18-story bay front
condo building was filled
with college students. They
were there on some kind of
multi-college science conference or something like that.
These were all bright students with typical college student desires when away from
home; conferences in the
early day and party the rest of
the time. I’m glad I wasn’t
there.
Cheerleading
Championships are coming in
next at the end of May. I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing
all those pretty young ladies
but I imagine the noise and
partying won’t be any different than the college students.
So, maybe it’s best I can’t
make it down there yet.
Besides, anyone in the real
estate related businesses
right now understand why.
It’s like the gold rush is on
again seeing multiple offers
within hours of a property hitting the market.
But, I really need to go to
have my knees checked up. I
had
double
knee
Chronoplasty surgery in
December and it always takes
me seven months to heal
from surgeries. Prior to this
surgery I had had one previous knee scoping when I was
in my forties. My other surgeries, all when I was in my
forties was “surfer’s ear” surgery, wrist from a car accident and back surgery when I
thought I could play superman and lift a credenza drawer filled with files.
Unfortunately, I thought
I was superman again this
time too. Six weeks after my
double knee surgery I began
walking eighteen holes of
golf again. Not just once a
week but two and three days
in a row, one day off and
another two or three on. My
knees began blowing up like

balloons and they hurt. So, I
took time off to let them calm
down again with the help of
returning to my physical therapy routine as well. They’re
feeling much better but
because there is some lingering puffiness I need to go see
my surgeon, Dr. MarronMcNaught, at the Amerimed
Hospital in Puerto Vallarta.
In my last two columns I
wrote about all the new
Amerimed Centers being
built to USA Health
Standards by the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim.
Here is another testimonial from someone who went
to a different medical center
in Puerto Vallarta but with
the same great results. This is
Canadian, Shirley Patterson’s
testimonial:
Six weeks after my left
hip replacement surgery in
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, I was
on the driving range hitting
golf balls and quite well I
must say. I just felt so great. I
had not hit a ball in two years
because of my contracting
osteoarthritis in both hips.
Thanks to Dr. Greig I will
soon be back in my world of
golf. I hope to be competing
back in lady golf tournaments
and playing to the capacity I
worked so hard to reach.
My right hip had the
replacement surgery in
January of 2011 and the left
hip in July of the same year.
In both cases I would have
had to wait for two years for
surgery, because of the long
wait lists in Edmonton,
Alberta Canada. This situation in Canada, having to wait
forever to have surgery, still
has not improved. I was very
lucky to have my surgeries
scheduled very quickly with
Dr. Greig who schedules the
surgeries for Puerto Vallarta
through Med to Go in
Phoenix. They provide all the
professional
detailed
arrangements. My Wait time
was approximately one
month for each of my surgeries.
I received the same great
care both in January and July
by Dr. Greig and the staff at
the Premiere private hospital
in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Premiere is a beautiful and
clean hospital with private
rooms complete with wide

screen TV’s. The Physio
Therapy and the follow up
with nursing care after surgery was incredible. I was
pain free in less than three
months following each surgery. I cannot believe how my
flexibility has returned. Dr.
Greig received orthopedic
training in USA, Germany
and Mexico. The cost of the
hip replacement surgery was
considerably less in Mexico
than in the USA by nearly 66
percent and my accommodations on the 18th floor of the
bayside Holiday Inn/Sea
River Tower turned the whole
ordeal into a one-month vacation as well.
Had I relied upon the
Canadian Health Care
System, I wouldn’t be writing
this letter. Golfing, swimming
and even tennis have
returned to my life. I can’t
say enough about the care,
savings and change in the
quality of my life since taking
advantage of the opportunities afforded me by coming to
Mexico. Any person in the
condition I was in, which was
basically an invalid, should
heed
my
testimony.
Socialized medicine sounds
good in campaign ads and
commercials but reality is so,
so different. I am a new
woman again by seeking out
high quality/low cost medical
care in Puerto Vallarta.
Shirley Patterson’s testimonial is not out of the ordinary. Oh, did say my double
knee surgery cost me for
$4,000?
By the way,
Chronoplasty meant injecting my own stem cells into
bone in order to grow back
cartilage on the Tibias where
I was basically bone on bone.
It is an alternative to complete knee replacement surgery. My surgeon said I’m
good to go for another 15
years (if I learn that I’m not
superman).
Shirley says to go to
MedToGoInternational.com
for more information on the
Physician Group in Phoenix
that she used. She says it’s
worth the call or Internet
visit. Stay healthy Boomers!!
We’re not 19 anymore.
Joe Moris may be contacted at (760)
500-6755 or by email at
joe@coastalcountry.net.

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along that corridor tremendously. It’s going to become a
very desirable place to be.”
Try telling that to some
of the merchants along the
route. Many are downright
angry. Others more understanding. But just about
everyone agrees that tearing
up the street and rebuilding
it has cost them beaucoup
Benjamins. One called it “an
absolute nightmare,” adding
that his earnings fell to zero
after construction began late
last June.
Down the street at
Yummy Yogurt, manager
Charles Pinady said that at
the height of construction,
the entrance to the eatery
was blocked, the sidewalk
torn up and street parking
eliminated.The company had
to lay off two part-time work-

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McCarthy fosters with her
students, Burstein said.
“You can tell that it’s
more than just a class,”
Burstein said. “It’s a community.”
And through the stories
and experiences she relates
from
her
own
life,
McCarthy brings a charismatic authenticity to the

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ter than expected results
this year, said Assistant
Superintendent
Cindy
Schaub.
“Kids are in fact communicating more and more
with
their
teachers,”
Schaub said. “We've definitely seen an increased
volume in reading and writing.”
Giving every student
an iPad allows teachers to
expand their use of Canvas,
a software tool teachers use
to coordinate online learning. Without an individually
assigned iPad, some students have limited access to
Canvas features at home,
Schaub said.
“We see them as an
organization tool,” Schaub
said. "(Students) know
exactly what they're working on. The learning is definitely being extended

Placing first in a pairs project for Medicine and Health at the San Diego
County Science and Engineering Fair, from left, Torrey Pines High
School student Alex Deng gets congratulations from proud teacher Julia
Newman, along with fellow TPHS winner Justin Wang. Courtesy photo

first place Computer Science
— Freshman Hersh
Gupta, first place Materials
and Bioengineering
In addition, among them
the students have received 14
professional awards.

ers and one full-time employee because business had fallen off so much.
Sue
Kelly
owns
Fairbanks Interiors and
Something MADD Boutique.
While Kelly’s interior design
business hardly suffered
because she mainly meets
clients at their homes, construction nearly killed her
boutique store on Coast
Highway. I talked to her
about two months after the
street project was launched
when I worked for a daily
newspaper in the area. She
said at the time she didn’t
know if she could survive
past Christmas.
She did. But she also estimated her losses exceeded
$30,000.
“We all knew it was
going to be painful, but we
also knew it was going to look
wonderful when they were
done,” Kelly said.

Over at Pearlwear Beads,
owner Xini Martin said she
had to draw heavily from her
savings account to stay afloat.
“I don’t think I’ll ever make
up for the money that I lost,”
she said. “But what is lost is
lost. We have to look forward.
And we see a lot of hope.”
Heebner notes the project will be completed some
four months ahead of schedule.The city also met regularly with businesses and sent
out timely email updates
after construction got underway.
“We are very sensitive to
our businesses in town,” she
said. “It’s not our aim to hurt
anyone or negatively affect
their pocketbook, but when
you have a major construction project like that, unfortunately it’s going to have an
impact. We’ve done everything we could to minimize
that impact.”

room that keeps people
coming back, said Jessica
Lamphere, another yoga
teacher whom McCarthy
mentored.
“She leads the lifestyle
that she’s teaching and really
embodies
yoga,”
Lamphere said. “She’s just
a really warm, kind person
who likes to give back to
her community.”
Back on the trail in the
San Dieguito River Park,

McCarthy and her group for
the day — a blur of pink,
purple, turquoise, black and
white — are on their way
back from the beach.
They head to the bBar,
a Del Mar juice bar
McCarthy has invested in,
where they will take a
break to sample “superfood” salads and smoothies.
The motto of the store is
“Be
Beaming,”
and
McCarthy certainly is.

beyond the classroom.”
Schaub said she hopes
to see lighter backpacks as
classrooms transition to
iPads, but some elementary
and middle school educational content is not yet
available in an iPad format.
Administrators
said
most teachers and parents
have reacted positively to
the program, but not everyone is satisfied.
Parent Beth Nelson
said software updates and
technological
glitches
caused unnecessary distress
and confusion for her seventh-grade daughter, who
twice suffered a total loss of
data on her iPad despite
backup attempts.
“I feel like this year
would have been more productive and less stressful
with the old-fashioned
paper and pencil,” Nelson
said.
She also questioned
whether younger students

have the maturity necessary to stay focused on their
learning when the iPad provides so many opportunities
for distraction.
Superintendent
Delaney said she felt “horrible” about the data losses,
but those kinds of technical
issues were isolated.
She also said she asks
teachers not to penalize students when they cannot
complete their work due to
unavoidable
technical
glitches.
To prevent students
from accessing inappropriate content, the iPads are
configured so that only
administrators at the school
can install new apps.
Internet access is automatically filtered to age-appropriate content, and students and parents are
required to agree to an
“acceptable use” policy
before they can take home
an iPad.

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‘Gatsby’ as vibrant as the 1920s Surf artist stoked by
positive reactions

By Noah S. Lee

The newest retelling of
“The Great Gatsby” is a
spectacular experience that
honors the novel’s name in
the richest way possible.
As someone who has
fond memories of reading F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s “The
Great Gatsby” in high
school, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are others
like me who fear this great
American novel won’t get
the respect it deserves in its
latest big screen appearance. To say I was skeptical
of Baz Luhrmann’s film
would be an understatement; I was certain his take
on “Gatsby” would shame
the book’s reputation.
And yet, as they say,
judging a book (or in this
case, film) by its cover
tends to result in an unexpected outcome that doesn’t match our prejudgments. Such a scenario
describes my current stance
toward Luhrmann’s “The
Great Gatsby” — a colorful
and surprisingly moving
adaptation of the renowned
literary classic.
It is the 1920s in New
York City, and aspiring
stockbroker Nick Carraway
(Tobey Maguire) is catching
up with his cousin, Daisy
(Carey Mulligan), and her
husband, Tom Buchanan
(Joel Edgerton), as well as
befriending golfer Jordan

Baker (Elizabeth Debicki).
As Nick begins to settle in,
Jordan informs him of his
mysterious
millionaire
neighbor
Jay
Gatsby
(Leonardo DiCaprio), who
is famous for throwing
extravagant
parties.
Through his relationship
with Gatsby, Nick discovers
that Gatsby and Daisy were
involved in a romance that
was broken by World War I,

and the former has been
flaunting his wealth to win
her back. And as Nick gets
lured into the lavish trappings of the Roaring
Twenties, he comes to experience the dark side of the
American idea of greatness,
as seen in both Gatsby and
the people he encounters.
It would be a crime for
me to not give props to
Luhrmann for the way he

depicts the 1920s. The camera has a sweeping, wide
personality, giving us a
solid idea of the film’s
grand scale, whether it is
Gatsby’s mansion or Nick’s
cottage or the Buchanan
estate or even the Valley of
the Ashes. Fast-paced editing helps the audience to
feel as they are immersed
in
the
spontaneous
lifestyles of the Long Island
elite. Oh, and don’t get me
started on the grandiose
visuals; if anyone can reconstruct the vivid opulence of
the 1920s, Luhrmann can.
There’s no doubt in my
mind that there will be
some moviegoers who have
doubts about the hip
hop/rap/rock-oriented
soundtrack. I am happy to
report, however, that the
modern music emerges in
small bursts to enhance the
corrupt nature of what
Americans considered to be
“great” as depicted in the
1920s. While this aesthetic
preference does at times
make some sequences, such
as Gatsby’s parties, come
off as scenes from a music
video, I wouldn’t go so far as
to call it entirely inappropriate.
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Reach over

San Diego surf artist
Bryan Helfand has every
reason to be stoked.
Although he has been seriously painting for only
seven years, his is the only
surf art mural in the corporate headquarters of
Facebook, the social media
giant located in Menlo
Park, Calif.
The 153-square-foot
brilliantly colored mural
depicting the ocean with a
perfect wave and flowing
kelp beneath a blazing
sunset covers what used to
be an enormous blank
wall.
According
to
Facebook employee Sara
S., the image evokes a
peaceful feeling of sitting
on the beach in Cardiff,
and even suggests the distinctive smell that goes
along with it. She says of
Helfand’s artwork, “It’s on
the verge of exploding,
and most people won’t be
able to afford it soon.”
Since he was 8 years
old, surfing had been
Helfand’s “creative fix”
until a fateful day in 2006
when he attended an event
showcasing
surfboard
shapers and other surfrelated items. After watching an established surf
artist transform a white
board into “this rad piece
of art that you could ride,”
Helfand went home and
painted one of his own
boards that same night.
“When it was done I couldn't stop looking at it ... I
was blown away by what I
had just created.”
He continues, “The
creative door swung wide
open at that moment and I
walked through it. I started painting some boards
for friends and the feedback was really positive,
which gave me the confidence to keep going.”
In a recent interview
with Corduroy TV, Helfand

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Bryan Helfand’s Art Alive banner
is currently on display at the
Cardiff Town Center. Photo courtesy
of
Stephen
Whalen
Photography

describes how his artistic
development has been
fueled by positive reaction
to his artwork: “It's like
riding a wave and having
people hoot at you along
the way. You're so stoked
after riding that wave
because you expressed
yourself in a way that people genuinely enjoyed
what you were doing at
that moment in time. It
fuels your stoke to do it
again and again.”
That’s exactly what
he’s been doing for the
past seven years.
Helfand states, “With
the use of acrylics, pencil,
pen, and found objects, I
create art that, like the
ocean, is magnetic. Each
piece is an evolution of the
last. It’s always evolving ...
a lot like my surfing.”
He remarks, “I paint
what interests me in a way
that hopefully evokes happiness, positivity and a
calm, elegant state of
mind.”
Regularly donating
artwork to help raise funds
for ocean-related organizations such as the Surfrider
Foundation, SurfAid, and
the annual Luau &
Longboard Invitational for
UCSD Moores Cancer
Center, Helfand says, “My
paintings portray a clean
and beautiful ocean. We as
individuals have the power
on a daily basis to help
keep
it
that
way.
Collectively and consistently we can help to keep
our waterways, beaches
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self, Leonardo DiCaprio
makes the enigmatic millionaire his own, capturing
his obsession and charisma
with poetic brilliance.
Tobey Maguire is an excellent choice for the tolerant
observer
that
Nick
Carraway is, providing the
audience a lens for which to
look through as the story
unfolds.
Carey Mulligan infuses
Daisy Buchanan’s attractive
yet shallow disposition with
flawless confidence.
Joel Edgerton has complete
control over the role of Tom
Buchanan, oftentimes displaying his iron-fisted
authority via the charac-

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CONTINUED FROM A18

and oceans free of foreign
objects and pollution.”
While showing a selection of his work at Bliss 101
in Encinitas, an exhibit of
Helfand’s ocean surf art
will be on display through
mid-June
at
The
Huntington
Beach
International
Surfing
Museum.
His work will also be
shown at the US Open of
Surfing on July 28 in
Huntington Beach, in addition to an upcoming group
show at The ARTery @ The
Lab in Costa Mesa.
There will be an exceptional opportunity to own a
piece of Helfand’s original
art when his Art Alive banner, along with 100 other

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ter’s arrogance.
As for the supporting
cast members, they, too,
deserve to be commended
for their efforts.
Elizabeth Debicki radiates the perfect level of
emotional evasiveness that
anyone would expect to see
in the Jordan Baker character.
Isla Fisher possesses a
feisty fire that fuels Myrtle
Wilson’s energetic personality with irresistible appeal.
Jason Clarke conveys a
credible amount of pathetic
ignorance in his portrayal
of George Wilson.
Amitabh Bachchan’s
few minutes of screen time
are all that he requires to
imbue gangster/gambler
Meyer Wolfsheim with an

air of notoriety.
Never did I expect to
like the newest interpretation of “The Great Gatsby,”
much less enjoy it.
Should you have any
reservations about whether
or not this film treats its
source
material
with
respect, you will be pleasantly surprised at just how
well it does.

banners painted by local
artists, is auctioned on May
26 in the courtyard of
Cardiff
Town
Center.
Details of the auction can
be
found
at
ArtsAliveEncinitas.com.
Learn more about the
artist, his surf art, and his
upcoming exhibitions at

Kay Colvin is director of the L Street
Fine Art Gallery in San Diego’s
Gaslamp Quarter, serves as an arts
commissioner for the City of
Encinitas, and specializes in promoting emerging and mid-career artists.
Contact her at kaycolvin@lstreetfineart.com.

Please, just
don’t move
things
I truly do know it is a
luxury to have someone
come and clean your
home, but I need to have a
few words with cleaning
personnel everywhere.
Stop moving things!
Nobody, and I mean,
nobody can find them.
I am certain that the
code taught by the professionals who train and
teach, says, “Move everything around as you clean.
That way, they know you
have cleaned there.”
It sounds good on
paper but we really have
got to find another way.
Please?
I first noticed this syndrome when I became a
librarian. I cannot tell you
how many times I hear,
“Well, the cleaning lady
moved my book and we
can’t find it!” It’s been
enough to finally prompt
this plea.
At first I thought this
just an excuse for parents
who lack the focus to keep
track of their children’s
library books. I have mellowed. I now have a wonderful,
well-meaning
cleaning woman. And she
moves things. And I can’t
find them.
Sadly, there seem to
be many, many of us who
keep our desks in ordered
chaos. I can visualize
exactly where I put something, even weeks later,
and that is where I expect
it to be. If it gets moved,
all is lost.
I usually preempt this
problem by doing the classic “cleaning for the cleaning lady” move. I stack
everything tidily so she
can dust without too much
rearrangement, and since
I stack it, I remember
where things are. But this
week, I slipped up.
My house is in
absolute and complete disorder as my kitchen and
bathrooms gets a facelift. I
am coping well, but my
bedroom is particularly
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Bike repair business booming in Encinitas
By Jared Whitlock

ENCINITAS — Eric Contreras’ home overflowed with Schwinn bikes four years ago. An avid
collector, his wife asked him to either get rid of the
excess bicycles or open a shop.
He felt confident choosing the latter, in part,
due to transportation trends.
“Data showed more people are biking, with a
lot of the increase focused in coastal areas,”
Contreras said. “I knew more people would need
bike tune-ups and improvements.”
The reasoning proved to be sound.The number
of customers at Contreras’ Cardiff Bike Shop has
steadily grown since the doors opened three years
ago thanks largely to a steady market of bicyclists
seeking his mechanic services, allowing Contreras
to parlay his hobby into a successful part-time
career.
Across Encinitas, cycling shops reported a
jump in demand for repairs. And economic figures
support the observed activity levels. Although bike
mechanics don’t represent a lot of jobs, it’s the fifth
fastest growing career in the county in terms of percent increase, according to the California
Employment Development Department. In 2010,
there were 160 full-time bike mechanics in the
county, and by 2020, it’s estimated there will be
more than 250.
From changes in technology to cycling infrastructure, bike shop owners offered a variety of reasons for why bike repairs are on the rise.
Contreras said that gas prices made biking
more attractive for many, feeding the repair industry a crop of new customers. But perhaps less obvious, he said cyclists are more likely to fix up their
rides than buy new with the economy still limping
TURN TO REPAIR ON B15

Fred Breidenthal, owner of Leucadia Cyclery, tinkers with a bike in his shop. Demand for bike mechanics is rising due to the
economy, changes in technology and the popularity of cycling. Photo by Jared Whitlock

Principal cuts journalism, Group alleges
students speak out
misconduct in
By Jeremy Ogul

CARLSBAD
—
Journalism students from La
Costa Canyon High School
implored the San Dieguito
Union High School District
board of trustees on May 2 to
save their journalism class,
which will be eliminated from
course offerings in the
upcoming school year.
More than a dozen students showed up in protest at
the board meeting after they
learned early last week that
La Costa Canyon Principal
Kyle Ruggles had decided not
to offer journalism as a
course option next year. The
journalism program, which
produces
the
monthly
MavLife student newspaper,
will instead be available only
as an extracurricular afterschool activity.
Editor-in-Chief Megan
Mineiro said some students
suspect Ruggles cut the journalism class in response to
articles and opinions the
newspaper published that

were unfavorable to the
administration at La Costa
Canyon. Students at the
recent board meeting handed
out copies of the March edition of MavLife, which featured an article and an editorial criticizing the school's
decision to cut the position of
athletic director.
In an interview after the
meeting, Ruggles said the
content of the newspaper had
nothing to do with his decision. He said he thought the
athletic director article was
"fabulously written."
"I've
been
very
impressed and pleased with
the work they've done,"
Ruggles said.
The real reason for cutting the journalism class is
declining enrollment, he said.
"We've had a drop of student interest in the journalism program and the journalism class," Ruggles said. "We
had a low number of students
register for the class next
year."

MavLife editors have
doubts about that explanation. Twenty-six students registered for the class initially,
and last week the journalism
students managed to recruit
another 11 students into the
class, raising next year's
enrollment to 37, Mineiro
said.
Data
compiled
by
MavLife editors shows that
La Costa Canyon High School
had 65 classes with an enrollment of fewer than 35 students last year.
When the editors presented this new information
to Ruggles last week, they
were told it was too late to
make changes to the school's
master schedule, Mineiro
said. Ruggles also declined
their proposal to combine the
journalism class with another
class, such as creative writing.
Whatever the reason for
cutting the journalism class,
it seems clear now that stuTURN TO JOURNALISM ON B15

housing decision
By Rachel Stine

CARLSBAD — Local
environmentalist
group
Preserve Calavera has
demanded the withdrawal of
Carlsbad City Council's
decision approving the
Quarry Creek housing development. The group is alleging that council members
held an illegal closed session
meeting about the project,
therefore making their decision invalid.
City Attorney Celia
Brewer has denied that any
closed session meetings on
Quarry Creek took place.
She said that the statement
by Mayor Matt Hall that
Preserve Calavera based its
claims on was a fumbling of
words during a late night
meeting that lasted more
than five hours.
On Monday, May 6,
Preserve Calavera's attorney

Everett DeLano submitted a
letter to the city claiming
that City Council violated
the Brown Act, which
requires city governments to
provide public notice in
advance of closed session
meetings and later publicly
report any action taken during such meetings.
The group pointed to a
statement that Hall made
during discussions of Quarry
Creek at a March 26 City
Council meeting.
During the statement in
question, Hall was raising
the issue of whether or not
City Council should continue the meeting, which at the
time had extended past 11
p.m., or continue discussions
to a subsequent meeting. He
explained to other council
members that before they
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MAY 17, 2013

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Scarf project to promote world peace with Golden Rule
By Lillian Cox

LA COSTA — Angela
Coppola has a simple plan to
bring about world peace.
In July 2012 she launched
the Golden Rule Project with
the goal of promoting a world
consciousness through a collection of silk Peace Scarves
bearing the Golden Rule, “Do
unto others as you would have
them do unto you.”
The same sentiment, or
“Golden Rule,” is shared by 11
world religions: Christianity,
Judaism, Islam, Hinduism,
Shinto, Buddhism, Baha’I
Faith, Religious Science,
Jainism, Cherokee and Yoruba
(Nigeria).Their versions would
also be printed on scarves.
The first phase of the
project was a design competition last year judged by fashion directors from some of the
nation’s top design schools
including the Pratt Institute in
New York and the Academy of
Art University in San
Francisco.
A first place prize of
$5,000 cash was awarded to
Katherine Barron, a graduate
of the Savannah College of Art
and Design, who chose for her
design a Golden Rule from the
Yoruba Nigerian religion:
“One going to take a pointed
stick to pinch a baby bird
should first try it on himself to
feel how it hurts.”
“In his mouth the baby
bird holds the pointed stick
used to pinch him,” she
explained. “His left wing is an
abstract pink ribbon (the pink
ribbon of peace). Surrounding
him are the words of the

Nigerian Golden Rule. In the
middle of the design is a
gold/yellow square to symbolize the Golden Rule.”
A second place prize of
$2,500 was awarded to William
Psinka, a San Diego advertising professional; and a third
place prize of $1,000 to Sarah
Crystal from Plano,Texas.Also
included in the collection is
the design of another contest
entry and two designs used
earlier in a test market.
To get the project off the
ground, $9,000 was donated by
Amy McQuillan for prize
money.
Coppola is reaching out to
the community to raise
$50,000 to manufacture and
bring the Peace Scarf
Collection to market. For this,
she has targeted JC Penney as
the
official
retailer.
Interestingly, JC Penney was
originally called The Golden
Rule Store when James Cash
Penney opened it in
Kemmerer, Wyo., in 1902.
When sold at wholesale,
the scarves would generate
$100,000 for The Golden Rule
Project.
Beneficiaries of product
sales would include the
Alliance for a New Humanity
(founding
member,
Dr.
Deepak Chopra), Born This
Way (founder, Lady Gaga),The
Peace Alliance (founding
member,
Marianne
Williamson), and United
Religions Initiative (founder,
Bishop William Swing).
“We trust that this will
bring awareness and create
conversations about this sim-

The Golden Rule Project's first place prize of $5,000 cash for their Peace
Scarf design competition last year was awarded to Katherine Barron, a
graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, who chose for her
design a Golden Rule from the Yoruba Nigerian religion: One going to
take a pointed stick to pinch a baby bird should first try it on himself to
ple principle which, if prac- inspirational art from the feel how it hurts. Courtesy photo

Angela Coppola has launched the Golden Rule Project with the goal of
promoting world peace through a collection of silk Peace Scarves bearing the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto
you” in the words of 11 world religions. Photo by Lillian Cox

ticed by all people who claim
to believe in a particular religion, would bring about world
peace,” Coppola explained.
“That will start giving us revenue; then we will have funds
to start the second design competition.”
That would be for a line of
dinnerware, including plates
and mugs, also bearing the
Golden Rule in the words of 11
world religions.
Coppola is owner of
Sacred Silks, a manufacturer
and retailer of silk prints of

world’s most sacred houses of
worship and museums.
“My goal in creating the
business was to one day represent every religion, and
through that medium, accent
the similarities not the differences in them,” she said. Prior
to moving to North County,
Coppola had a full-service ad
agency in San Francisco with
clients who included Levi
Strauss. She was also international corporate creative director for Faberge when it was the
largest perfume company in

the world.
Today, Coppola says she’s
just an ordinary person who
wants to use her experience to
help the world.
“I do believe that the shift
has to take place with the
younger generation because
the older generation has prejudices deeply embedded in
their psyche and it’s more
daunting to change their
thinking,” she said. “Young
people are more concerned
about the future and have a

clear idea about how war and
mistreatment of each other is
not a solution and they are
more willing to work to make
this concept of ‘we are one’ a
reality.”
For more information
visit goldenruleproject.us or
sacredsilks.com. To make a
donation or serve on the board
or advisory committee call
Coppola at (760) 431-2781.
Celebrities willing to serve as
spokespersons are also welcomed.

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MAY 17, 2013

ODD More controversy over elephant rides at SD fair
FILES

by CHUCK
SHEPHERD

By Bianca Kaplanek

Charming
The beauty pageant
each
April
at
the
Rattlesnake Roundup in
Sweetwater, Texas, requires
traditional skills like interview poise, evening-gown
fashion and talent, but also
some ability and inclination
to milk and skin rattlers.
High school senior Kyndra
Vaught won this year’s Miss
Snake Charmer, wearing
jeweled boots one night for
her country-western ballad,
then Kevlar boots and camouflage chaps the next as she
took on dozens of rattlers in
the wooden snake pit.
Vaught expertly held up one
serpent, offered its tail-end
rattles for a baby to touch,
then helped hold, measure,
milk and skin a buzzing,
slithery serpent. A Los
Angeles Times dispatch
noted that Vaught hoped to
be on her way soon to the
Berklee College of Music in
Boston. [Los Angeles Times,
4-12-2013]

The Continuing Crisis
That there are flea “circuses” is bizarre enough, but
in March a cold spell in
Germany wiped out an
entire troupe of “performing” fleas, requiring the flea
whisperer to secure replacements (because, of course,
the show must go on).Trainer
Robert Birk reached out to a
university near MechernichKommern for 50 substitutes,
which he apparently worked
into the act over one weekend. (Fleas, with or without
training, can pull up to
160,000 times their own
weight and leap to 100 times
their own height.) [The
Independent (London), 3-312013]
The owner of a restaurant in southern Sweden told
authorities in March that the
former owner had assured
him that “everything had
been approved,” apparently
including the appliance the
restaurant used for mixing
salad dressings and sauces —
which was a table-model
cement mixer. When health
officials told the owner that
it certainly was not
“approved,” he immediately
bought another, “rust-free,”
mixer. (Health authorities
had come to the restaurant
on a complaint that a screw
had turned up in a customer’s kabob.) [The Local
(Stockholm), 3-30-2013]

Modern Anglers
Eliel Santos fishes the
grates of New York City
seven days a week, reeling in
enough bounty to sustain
him for the last eight years,
he told the New York Post in
April. The “fishing line”
Santos, 38, uses is dental
floss, with electrician’s tape
and Blue-Touch mouse glue
— equipment that “he controls with the precision of an
archer,” the Post reported.
His biggest catch ever was a
$1,800 (pawned value) gold
and diamond bracelet, but
the most popular current
items are iPhones, which texting-on-the-move pedestrians
apparently have trouble
hanging onto. [New York
Post, 4-28-2013]

DEL MAR — The controversy over elephant rides at
the San Diego County Fair
continues after a member of
the Del Mar Fairgrounds governing board of directors
received what he deemed a
credible threat during an
April 19 lunch with fellow
attorneys.
Board Vice President
Fred Schenk said during
what he thought was going to
be a casual discussion with
Howard Finkelstein and
Jeffrey Krinsk, both of whom
he’s known for decades,
Finkelstein made “some dark
and disturbing comments.”
After the May 7 meeting
of the 22nd DAA, which oversees the fairgrounds, Schenk
said he told Finkelstein the
rides have been at the fair for
30 years without incident.
“Howard said, ‘God forbid something should happen. Maybe this is the year,’”
Schenk said. “He said you
and the board and the governor will be held accountable.”
Schenk said he asked
Finkelstein more than once if
that was a threat. “He wouldn’t deny it,” Schenk said.
“That was very disturbing to
me and it still is.”
The fact that the comments were made four days
after the Boston Marathon
bombings “was very troubling,” Schenk said. “That
juxtaposition didn’t sit well

with me.”
Schenk said he told
other fairgrounds officials
about the conversation, but
never mentioned Finkelstein
by name.
He said he and Director
Lisa Barkett then called
Sacramento to inform Gov.
Jerry Brown’s office about
the comments, again opting
to let Finkelstein remain
anonymous.
Schenk
identified
Finkelstein at the May 7
meeting, after an email
Finkelstein originated was
sent “far and wide.”
“I had a deep concern,”
Schenk said. “I couldn’t take
a chance.That’s why I went to
the governor. I certainly wasn’t going to keep him in the
dark.”
Controversy about the
elephant rides began in June
2011 when representatives
from animal rights groups
asked the 22nd DAA board of
directors to cancel the fair
attraction, claiming the company that provides the rides
abuses its pachyderms.
Matt
Rossell
from
Animal
Defenders
International presented a
DVD released by his organization that he alleges was
videotaped at Have Trunk
Will Travel in Riverside. He
said it allegedly shows Have
Trunk Will Travel owners and
trainers using bull hooks —
tools with a bronze or steel
hook attached to a handle —

Fair gala includes
salute and concert
DEL MAR — The Don
Diego
Scholarship
Foundation invites the community to get tickets now for
its annual dinner and concert gala June 15 at the San
Diego County Fairgrounds
benefiting the foundation’s
educational programs.
In addition to hosted
cocktails, dinner at the Fair’s
Turf Club and other activities receive VIP seating at
the Steve Miller Band concert.
Individual tickets purchased by June 1, are $200
each; after June 1, $250.
Ticket packages offering
sponsorship recognition are
also available at several levels. Obtain information and
tickets at
dondiegoscholarship.org or
dondiegoscholarship@sdfair.
com.
Pre-concert festivities
begin at 4:30 p.m. June 15
with cocktails and a silent
auction that includes guitars
autographed by past and
current Fair Grandstand performers, memorabilia signed
by celebrities and local
sports heroes, fun getaway
packages and more.
There will be a tribute
to Bob Spanjian and the
Spanjian
Family
Scholarship, followed by
introduction of the four 2013
Don Diego scholarship recipients. Spanjian continues to
serve as secretary/treasurer
and is also a past president
and member of the 22nd
District
Agricultural
Association Board, which

oversees the fair and Del
Mar Fairgrounds.
Don Diego Chairman
Paul Ecke II, also a founding
board member, said “We are
establishing the Spanjian
Family Scholarship in Bob’s
honor.
Typically, we award
scholarships of $5,000 each
to an outstanding, collegebound San Diego County
high school senior in each of
the four following categories: 1) 4-H member; 2)
Future Farmers of America
member; 3) employee at the
fair, racetrack or fairgrounds; and 4) exhibitor at
the fair. This new endowment scholarship will enable
us to augment one scholarship each year, providing the
most outstanding student
with an added $5,000
Spanjian
Family
Scholarship, for a total of
$10,000.”
For decades, and his
brother Richard developed
Spandex, which DuPont
named in the Spanjian family’s honor. Based on
Spandex,
Spanjian
Sportswear became a leader
in its field, producing uniforms for hundreds of sports
teams.
The brothers eventually
moved Spanjian Sportswear
to San Marcos. Bob Spanjian
and his wife, Betty, raised a
family in Rancho Santa Fe.
The brothers sold the company in 1985.
For more information,
v
i
s
i
t
dondiegoscholarship.org.

and electric prods to train the
animals.
Kari Johnson, who owns
Have Trunk Will Travel with
her husband, Gary, said people who are not with “legitimate animal welfare organizations” are not qualified to
comment on the footage
because they “would not
know what they are looking
at.” She said the recording
was not in context.
Five months later, at the
November meeting with several new governor-appointed
directors, including Schenk,
the board voted 4-3, after
more than two hours of testimony by people on both sides
of the issue, to allow the rides
to continue until 2014.
That’s
when
the
Association of Zoos and
Aquariums will require facilities to limit training to protected contact rather than
free contact if they want to
retain the association’s
accreditation.
In free contact, elephants and handlers interact
directly, while in protected
contact there is a barrier
between the two.
The issue was resurrected during the March 2013
meeting when the board was
approving contracts for this
year’s fair. Directors decided
unanimously to stand by
their 2011 decision.
When Finkelstein noted
to Schenk that Los Angeles
and Orange counties both

canceled the rides during
their fairs, Schenk said Del
Mar is different because it
also hosts thoroughbred
races.
“People have complained about that,” he said.
“There are people who are
advocating against horse racing. I didn’t want to create
the first step along the way
when in two years we’re probably not going to have the
rides. They’ll just go away.
There won’t be a vote
because we’ll be complying
with the AZA.”
Finkelstein
said
Schenk’s description of his
comments isn’t entirely
accurate. “Placing a child on
the back of a 2-ton animal is
obviously a dangerous situation,” he said. “It shouldn’t
be allowed, including this
year, because God forbid if
something should happen.
“It would be horrible
this year or any year and the
community would be held
accountable for allowing
such an arcane and dangerous activity,” Finkelstein
said. “I said, ‘I’m not threatening you. That’s ridiculous.’
If he mistook my concern for
putting kids on the back of a
potentially dangerous animal, I apologize.”
Schenk said he doesn’t
believe Finkelstein would do
anything criminal but he
wasn’t sure about others.
Finkelstein said Schenk
is trying to “cover up the big-

ger picture of what he
described as abuse with the
jockeys and horses during
the races.”
As a result of the comments between the two men,
two 22nd DAA security
guards were posted at the
May 7 meeting and the fairgrounds plans to add extra
security and surveillance
around the elephant rides
during this year’s fair, June
8-July 4.
Finkelstein said it
wouldn’t be necessary. “I’m
not that stupid,” he said. “I
have no knowledge of anyone planning to cause damage to anyone or anything at
the county fair, nor do I have
any intention of doing something that stupid or that horrible.”
At
press
time,
Finkelstein’s law partner,
Krinsk, did not return a
phone call seeking his comments on what transpired at
the lunch.
Finkelstein is chairman
of The Foundation for
Animal Care and Education,
a nonprofit organization
whose mission is to enhance
and preserve the quality of
life of animals by providing
access to necessary medical
care and education.
“This not as nefarious as
it’s been made out to be,” he
said of the lunch between
the three men. “But I’m still
shocked Fred is supporting
this.”

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Decision ends revenue source
By Bianca Kaplanek

COAST CITIES — A deal
that could have earned the
Del Mar Fairgrounds up to
$150,000 annually came to an
end April 30 when Carlsbad
council members indicated
they will not allow mini-satellite gambling in that city.
The owners of Silky
Sullivan’s Race and Sports
Bar were denied a business
license and City Council
approved an urgency ordinance prohibiting mini-satellite wagering, noting any
form of gambling is generally
not allowed in Carlsbad.
In an effort to widen the
distribution of the horse racing signal at brick-and-mor-

Regulations and fees are now in place so food trucks can return to Del Mar. The mobile vendors set up shop
in the Seagrove parking lot in October, but haven’t returned since November, when a temporary moratorium was adopted to allow the city to set rules for the trucks. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek

Food trucks fees set
By Bianca Kaplanek

DEL MAR — Having
already established the
when, where and how food
trucks can operate in Del
Mar, council members set
the how much at the April 6
meeting, approving a $350
charge for first-time applicants and a $175 annual
renewal fee.
The amounts represent
full-cost recovery for staff
time to process required
operations permits.
When food trucks first
rolled into town in October
2012, residents were all fired
up about the Wednesday
night gatherings in the private Seagrove parking lot on
Coast Boulevard.
There were concerns
about noise, traffic, smells,
lighting, restroom availability and impacts to established restaurants, although
state law precludes cities
from banning the trucks
because they may add competition to brick-and-mortar
establishments.
Soon thereafter, City
Council temporarily adopted
interim urgency ordinances
prohibiting the issuance of
any new business licenses
for the mobile vendors to
allow staff to create regulations in Del Mar.
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operations were adopted
April 15 and become effective May 15. All mobile food
vending operators must
obtain a mobile operations
permit and city business
license, but the fees weren’t
set when the new laws were
adopted.
To determine the appropriate fees, the Planning and
Community Development
Department estimated the
amount of time staff will
spend, on average, processing the four types of mobile

tion of required information
and operational standards,
drafting approval documents
and conditions, and administrative follow-up and document management, Garcia
said.
“The calculations are
based on the average staff
time needed for each permit
at full-cost recovery,” she
said.
The fees don’t specifically apply to other mobile
vending services, such as
barbers, knife sharpening or

The calculations are based on
the average staff time needed for
each permit at full-cost recovery”
Kathy Garcia
Planning Director

food vending permits identified in the ordinance.
They are for operations
on private property, such as
the previous Wednesday
night gatherings, in the public right of way, for nonprofit
events or for private catering
events with more than one
truck.
Planning
Director
Kathy Garcia said she estimated it will take a little
more than five hours to
process each initial permit at
varying staff rates.
Processing will include,
at a minimum, the application completeness review,
location site visits, verifica-

retail sales, but they could if
those categories are added
in the future.
Nine food trucks were
issued business licenses
before the moratorium was
adopted in November. The
trucks haven’t returned to
town since then.
Christian Murcia, who
organized the gatherings,
said he was approached by
officials from Seagrove parking to create business in the
underutilized lot during the
offseason.
He said the Wednesday
night gatherings weren’t
very profitable for the operators.

tar sites, in 2007 the state
approved the development of
45 mini-satellites, which are
regulated and licensed by the
California Horse Racing
Board.
If a potential restaurant
or sports bar is within a 20mile radius of an existing
race track — which in this
case is the Del Mar
Fairgrounds — the applicant
must be granted a waiver
from the facility.
Last month the 22nd
District
Agricultural
Association, which governs
the fairgrounds, authorized
an agreement — pending
approval from Carlsbad and
licensing from the California

Horse Racing Board — to
allow Silky Sullivan’s to operate a mini-satellite wagering
site.
Under the proposed
five-year agreement that
included an option to renew
for an additional three years,
the 22nd DAA would have
received between 1 percent
and 1.2 percent annually.
Estimated revenue for the
district
was
between
$100,000 and $150,000 a
year.
The owners of Silky
Sullivan’s said they will look
elsewhere to open the sports
bar. If it is within a 20-mile
radius, the fairgrounds could
still benefit.

Excavation to improve health
of the San Elijo Lagoon
By Jared Whitlock

CARDIFF-BY-THE-SEA
— On Monday, earthmovers
began carting more than
25,000 cubic yards of sand out
of the San Elijo Lagoon and
onto the beach.
The process will reconnect the inlet of the lagoon
with the ocean. In doing so,
there will be better tidal circulation.
“If you let the inlet close,
there’s no constant,” said
Doug Gibson, a wetlands ecologist who is the executive
director of the nonprofit San
Elijo Lagoon Conservancy. “If
you have a constant — the
ocean — there’s better diversity and it keeps the lagoon in
balance.”
Gibson explained that
saltwater circulating into the
lagoon prevents oxygen
depletion, bolstering marine
life.
The small inlet, intersecting Cardiff State Beach and
the San Elijo campgrounds, is
the lagoon’s only access point
to the ocean.
Following winter storms,
piles of sand block the inlet.
Throughout the weeklong excavation, earthmovers
break through the sand berm.
The earthmovers also remove
sand underneath the bridge
that overlooks the inlet, as
well as sand just east of the
bridge.
The sand that’s dredged
is unloaded onto the nearby
beach. Without the excavation, the inlet would likely be
closed most of the year.
In the mid-90s, the San
Elijo Lagoon began experimenting with dredging.
After monitoring the
effects, the conservancy
determined spring is the best
time to conduct excavations.
If done in winter, powerful
winter storms would likely
reverse any dredgings in as

Earthmovers dig out an inlet at Cardiff State Beach to improve the health
of the San Elijo Lagoon. The process, expected to wrap up in a week,
won’t affect grunions. It’s recommended beachgoers check water quality over the next week. Photo by Jared Whitlock

little as a day. And as the temperature rises in the spring in
summer, the excavation provides much-needed oxygen.
Gibson noted the excavation won’t affect grunions. It’s
expected the grunions will be
laying eggs next week, but the

If you have
a constant —
the ocean —
there’s better
diversity and it
keeps the lagoon
in balance.”
Doug Gibson
Wetlands Ecologist

operation will be finished by
then.
As of Tuesday morning, a

precautionary advisory from
the San Diego Department of
Environmental health was in
effect for swimmers and
surfers at Cardiff State beach.
Because sand is being dug up,
the project has the potential
to stir up pollutants.
While there might be
periodic closures over the
next week, the excavation will
improve water quality for the
rest of the year and beyond,
according to Gibson.
The status of beaches’
water quality can be found at
sdcoastkeeper.org.
For the past 12 years,
excavations have been an
annual event.
Gibson noted the dredgings have benefited the fish
that depend on the lagoon as a
nursery as well as other
marine life and plants.
Additionally, letting the
lagoon breath cuts down on
the mosquito population.
Gibson said the cost of
the dredging operation is
about $80,000.
Plus, monitoring the project throughout the year, which
involves taking water samples
and performing tests to gauge
the health of the bird and fish
populations, carries a cost of
about $30,000.
The project is paid for
with grants from the county
and the conservancy’s endowment, which is funded by a
variety of agencies and private
donors.
“We’ll continue to see the
lagoon get better,” Gibson
said.

Solana Beach
OKs sand project
By Bianca Kaplanek

SOLANA BEACH —
City Council unanimously
agreed at the May 8 meeting to send a letter to the
U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers supporting a proposed 50-year sand replenishment project that has
been in the works for more
than a decade.
The goal of the Solana
Beach-Encinitas Coastal
Storm Damage Project, a
joint effort between the two
cities and the Army Corps
of Engineers, is to reduce
damage to more than eight
miles of beach beginning at
the mouth of Batiquitos
Lagoon in Encinitas and
stretching south to include
the entire 1.7-mile Solana
Beach coastline except an
area north of Tide Park.
Encinitas
also
approved the support letter
at its council meeting the
same night. A no vote by
either city would have terminated the project.
The plan is to use sand
from offshore borrow sites
to renourish the beaches on
a regular cycle for 50 years
starting in 2015.
The Army Corps studied several alternatives that
included submerged breakwaters, artificial reefs, sea
walls, sand replacement,
filling the notches at the
base of the bluffs and a
hybrid of the latter two.
Ultimately, its preferred option is sand
replenishment.
Solana Beach is slated
to initially receive 960,000
cubic yards of sand to create a 200-foot beach.
Approximately every 13
years the city will receive
an additional 420,000 cubic
yards of sand.
The
recommended
plan for Encinitas is to
replace 100 feet of beach
starting with 680,000 cubic
yards of sand and then add
280,000 cubic yards every
five years.
It is estimated the project could annually result in
$1.14 million for Solana
Beach and $1.44 million for
Encinitas through sales and
transient occupancy taxes
from people visiting the
coastal cities for their
beaches.
In addition to the proposed financial benefits,
the project is expected to
protect private and public
property along the beach,
provide an enhanced habitat for shorebirds and
grunion and eliminate the
need for sea walls, on ongoing controversy in Solana
Beach.
The Corps conducted a
surfing analysis using backwash changes, intensity for
beach breaks, sedimentation changes to reef breaks,
the current at surf sites and
changes to surf break locations and surfing frequency.
“We did find that four
out of 21 surf spots that we
analyzed would likely have
a
change,”
Heather
Schlosser, from the Corps’
Engineering and Research
Department, said. They are

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Table Tops and Pill Box in
Solana Beach and Stone
Steps and Southside in
Encinitas.
“The study does not
attempt to put a value on
how the surfing experience
would be impacted, just
that those four would have
a change,” she said.
Project costs to this
point are approximately
$8.2 million, with the state
Department of Boating and
Waterways assisting the
cities in meeting their 50
percent cost share requirement.
Surf monitoring will be
included as part of the project. Representatives from
the Army
Corps
of
Engineers said the cities
will have flexibility to make
adjustments as the project
advances.
“You are always in control up until the sand is
being
placed,”
City
Manager David Ott added.
“At any time you do not
have to accept the project.”
The dozen speakers
who addressed council were
evenly split on their positions.
Coastal property owners support the plan.
“It seems to allow for a
lot of flexibility and that’s a
good thing,” Jon Corn, representing coastal property
owners, said. “It’s key to
public safety and it’s also
key to recreation and enjoyment of the beach for many
people
“It protects city property,” Corn said. “It protects
private property and also it
can lead to the reduction, or
even for a long time, the
need for any sea walls. …
That’s fantastic for everybody.”
Surfers are not as optimistic, expressing concerns
the project will negatively
impact reef breaks.
Mark Rauscher, coastal
preservation manager for
the Surfrider Foundation,
said the Army Corps of
Engineers justified the
destruction of high-quality
waves by saying the resulting low-quality waves will
be as much of a draw to
surfers.
“Only it’ll be beginning
surfers rather than those
that are more experienced,”
Rauscher
said.
“Unfortunately there is
only a limited number of
high-quality surf spots that
people go out of their way
to get to and you’re about to
bury a few of them with this
project.”
Roger Kube, chairman
of San Diego Surfrider, said
his group wants the impacts
to surf spots analyzed and
the initial amount of sand
to be reduced. The group is
also asking that monitoring
be an integral part of the
project.
“The proposed monitoring will have no impact
on reef breaks that are
already buried,” Kube said.
“It will be too late.”
Adam Enright said
monitoring is “pretty much
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names chairman
and committee
RANCHO SANTA FE —
Anna Waite has been
announced as chairwoman for
this
year’s
Country
Friends/South Coast Plaza
58th Annual Art of Fashion
Runway Show. Patricia Mogul
was also announced as the cochairwoman of the Art of
Fashion.
The event has been set
for Sept. 19 at The Inn at
Rancho Santa Fe. Proceeds
from the fashion show, luncheon, live entertainment, boutique shopping and wine tasting will benefit more than 20
San Diego charities, including
Friends of San Pasqual
Academy, Helen Woodward
Animal Center, Big Brothers
Big Sisters of San Diego, Kids
Korps USA and Center For
Community Solutions.
Waite has served on the
board of directors for The
Country Friends for seven
years. She prides herself with
helping others by actively volunteering in the community
with many organizations.
“I feel honored to be
selected as the chairwoman
for this year’s Art of Fashion.
I’m thankful to have such a
talented and dedicated group
of women on my committee to
assist with making this year’s
Art of Fashion a spectacular
event.
Dave Baker, Tamara
Banks, Ana Maria McBrayer,
Betty Jo Billick, Linda Black,
Maggie Bobileff, Sabrina
Cadini, Marci Cavenaugh,
Terri Chivetta, Ariel Cowan,
Deb Cross, Pam Devaney,
Chris Epstein, Sharon Ferges,
Rebecca Franks, Kathy Gash,

Arline Genis, Michele Grust,
Amber
Hodges,
Karen
Hoehn, Alex Johnson, Betsy
Jones, Erika Kao, Jo Ann
Kitty,Steve Knight, Elaine
Leach, Kay Liebowitz, Yvette
Letourneau, Jeanne Lucia,
Lauren Mandler, Gordon Mac
Mitchell, Patricia Mogul,
Ellen Nakamura, Andrea
Naversen, Jean Newman,
Suzanne Newman, Pearl
Padovano, Martha Parkou,
Erin Regan, Tina Rappaport,
Esther Rodriquez, Stacey
Rosenblatt, Cheri Salyers,
Donna Schempp, Jolynn
Shapiro, Machel Shull, Mia
Stefanko, Heidi Timlake,
Rhonda Tryon, Anna Waite,
and Shana Witkin.
In a new twist this year,
the event will begin with the
Art of Fashion Runway Show
first this year at The Rancho
Santa Fe Inn. After the fashion show, the luncheon will be
next, with the opportunity to
shop at boutiques of South
Coast Plaza, including the latest trends in clothing, handbags, jewelry, eyewear and
other accessories. The event
concludes with the “Apres
Affaire” wine tasting, a time
to savor and toast the 2013
beneficiaries.
If you would like to be a
sponsor for this year’s 58th
Country Friend’s Art of
Fashion Show, please contact
The Country Friends at
events@thecountryfriends.or
g or (858) 756-1192, ext. 4.The
Country Friends, a 501c(3)
non-profit organization, was
formed in 1954 to fulfill a
need to “help people help
themselves.”

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Local athlete aims for the Paralympics
By Rachel Stine

CARLSBAD — Having
competed internationally in
paratriathlons for the past
few years, Jamie Brown said
that between swimming,
biking and running his
favorite part of every race is
the finish line.
The
33-year-old
Carlsbad athlete is one of
the founding members of
the
newly
formed
Challenged
Athletes
Foundation (CAF) Elite
Paratriathlon Team.
As a team member, he
has dedicated himself to
competing around the
world in the hopes of racing
in the debut of paratriathlons at the 2016
Paralympic Games in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
“It’s a very unique
sport just because you have
to compete in all three
events,” said Brown, who
has competed in sports all
of his life, about paratriathlons.
The sprint distance
paratriathlons, in which he
competes, require athletes
to swim 750 meters, bike 12
miles, and run 3.1 miles.
He said that because of
all of the different elements
of paratriathlons, “I don’t
think it’s even possible to
run a perfect race.”
But for Brown, that has
been part of the sport’s
appeal.
He said he is driven by
the “never-ending challenge to improve.”
He initially discovered
paratriathlons at a camp
hosted by CAF in 2010. CAF
is a San Diego-based organization that supports people
with physical disabilities so
they can be involved in
sports.
Brown, who was born
without a fibia in his right
leg and a deformed right
foot, had his foot amputated
when he was 11 months old.
He has competed in sports
using special prosthetics,
and
played
baseball

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Te’o, Fluker run with
the ones in OTAs
By Tony Cagala
Paratriathlete Jamie Brown crosses the finish line at the International Triathlon Union San Diego race on April 20,
placing fourth in his classification in the 750-meter swim, 12-mile bike, and 3.1-mile run event. Courtesy photo

through high school and college.
“I’ve always played
sports growing up, playing
against the able-bodied
kids … I have such a passion for sports,” Brown said.
“Paratriathlon is so different to begin with. It really requires a lot of skill and
even a little bit of risk taking,” said Mark Sortino, the
director CAF paratriathlon
team. “When you see a chal-

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lenged athlete competing
in it, people are just
amazed.”
“(Brown is) actually
fairly new in the sport,
which is surprising considering how well he’s done in
such a short amount of
time,” he added.
Most recently, Brown
placed fourth in the division for below the knee
amputees
in
the
International
Triathlon
Union San Diego race on
April 20. He also was the
USA National Champion
for paratriathlons for 2011
and 2012.
Grant funding for travel and equipment from CAF
has enabled Brown and his
six other team members to
pursue competing in more
paratriathlon events.
“Without Challenged
Athletes Foundation, I
couldn’t even come close to
doing all of these events,”
Brown said.
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cover the special prosthetics needed for running and
biking, which cost thousands of dollars.
Sortino said that competing in triathlons costs
$15,000 more at minimum
for challenged athletes
compared to the basic
expenses paid by able-bodied athletes.
Brown and the rest of
the CAF paratriathlon team
will continue to aim for the
Paralympics by racing in
the 2013 USA Paratriathlon
National Championship in
Austin, Texas May 27.
Brown anticipates competing against about 75 of
the nation’s best athletes in
his division at the event.
Sortino
said
that
Brown’s classification is the
second most competitive in
paratriathlons.
“He really is truly racing against the best in the
world,” he said.
Brown said he will continue his regimen of training 12 to 18 hours each
week to prepare, but knows
that there are some aspects
of the race he will not be
able to predict.
“You never really know
what you’re going to get
into once you get out
there,” Brown said, explaining that a race can easily be
influenced by the weather
or terrain.
But for him, “Having
that not knowing sensation
is kind of the fun part.”

SAN DIEGO — The Chargers began their search for
the best 53 players Monday with the opening of OTAs.
Head Coach Mike McCoy (with note card in one hand, a
whistle in the other) watched for the first time as his
entire team took part in all three phases of the game.
It was great, McCoy said, to get everyone together
and to start teaching them the way they want to practice from OTAs to mini-camp to training camp.
He kept his eye on the rookies, including firstround draft pick D.J. Fluker and second-round draft
pick Manti Te’o, both of whom played with first squad.
He said Te’o did a nice job on the field. “We have
big expectations for him coming in here and stepping in

All the young guys, they’re
thinking so much right now
instead of just going out and
playing and reacting.”
Mike McCoy
Chargers Head Coach

and playing for us. He’s going to get thrown in early, he’s
in there with the ones right now and we’re going to see
how much he can pick up.”
Te’o wasn’t made available to the media.
“All the young guys, they’re thinking so much right
now instead of just going out and playing and reacting,”
McCoy said, making reference to a missed play by
Fluker who allowed second-year outside linebacker
Melvin Ingram to get passed him.
Philip Rivers was just glad he didn’t get touched by
onrushing defenders out there.
Regarding Te’o, Rivers said he didn’t pay much
attention to how he did.
“It didn’t seem like he was lost or anything. He got
matched up on (Antonio) Gates a few times — that was
a quick welcome day one. I don’t how well he did, but he
certainly didn’t stand out (mistake-wise), which is a
good thing,” Rivers said.
Donald Butler said he saw Te’o picking up the system. “(Te’o) did a great job out there today in terms of
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Why you want barn owl buddies
5-lb portable oxygen
concentrator gives
gift of freedom
If you, or someone you
love, use oxygen therapy
then you know how limiting oxygen tank systems
can be. A new technology
gives users the freedom to
move about without the
typical restrictions of
equipment weight or
length of time.
Gordon Mori, CEO of

Our goal is
to help people
limited by their
medical
conditions.”
Gordon Mori
CEO, Mori Medical

Mori Medical Equipment
Inc in Vista says he started
carrying these lighter,
more portable oxygen concentrators (POC’s) because
they truly do improve the
quality of life.
What is a portable
oxygen concentrator?
A portable oxygen
concentrator (POC) makes
its own oxygen, and unlike
a regular oxygen concentrator it is much lighter
and more portable. Typical
oxygen equipment can
weigh 20 pounds or more
making it hard to move
around.
As a result, Mori said,
many people feel tied to
their equipment at home.
The advantage of this new
technology is that the
equipment is so light (from
3 to 10 pounds depending
on the manufacturer,
model and features) that
people can actually carry
it over their shoulder like
a book bag.
“People who haven’t
seen a POC are always surprised at the portability of
this new technology”, Mori
says.
One model, the
FreeStyle by AirSep,
weighs just 4.4 pounds and
comes with an over-theshoulder bag. The shoulder
bag carries the POC and
extra batteries for all-day
events. Another model, by
SimplyGo, weighs just 10
pounds and can provide
continuous flow.
POC’s are becoming
immensely popular for
people who like to travel.
They are now accepted by

the FAA for commercial
airlines as well as cruise
lines, trains and buses. For
those who like to stay closer to home, a POC can
make gardening possible,
or allow users to attend
sporting events or family
outings. It plugs into a regular outlet for charging at
home, in a car or a hotel and can still be used when
it is charging. Another
solution that Mori offers is
the HomeFill system that
can provide an unlimited
supply of portable oxygen
tanks, M6, M9, and the
ultra compact M4.
Mori
Medical
Equipment Inc. is a family
owned and operated business founded in 2011 to
provide North County San
Diego residents a more
personal resource for medical equipment purchase
and
rental
including
wheelchairs, electric beds,
breathing equipment and
related items. They are
members of The Joint
Commission, the prestigious national organization that accredits and certifies health care organizations in the United States.
Mori Medical is approved
by Medicare, Medi-Cal and
LIHP and they stand
behind everything they
sell.
Mori Medical has a 24
hour customer service
line. They offer local
repair and maintenance
and have an equipment
warehouse located in
Vista. The Mori Medical
staff sets up and takes
down equipment and provides equipment training
in the comfort of your
home as needed.
They also have a certified respiratory therapist
on staff.
Mori Medical represents four of the top manufacturers of POC’s in the
United States. Mr. Mori
says that it is important to
match the right equipment
with
an
individual’s
lifestyle and needs. “Our
goal” he says,” is to help
people limited by their
medical conditions to have
the freedom to enjoy life
to the fullest.”
For more information,
you can contact Mori
Medical Equipment Inc. at
(760) 659-4200 or email
Mr.
Mori
at
gmori@morimedicalequipment.com.

Tired of wolves gnawing on your fruit trees,
gophers snatching your vegetation from below, or rats
scuttling up your downspouts? Invite a couple of
barn owls over and they’ll
gobble up the vermin at a
rate of 2,000 a year. The universal party invite they all
recognize is a nest box.
“Barn owls are incredibly
widespread in America, so
when you put up your nest
box, you’ll start seeing barn
owls take roost in them in
short order, and then they’ll
start going to work for you,”
said Tom Stephan, master
falconer, raptor expert, and
owner of Barn Owl Boxes in
Ramona. “Using natural
predators is more effective
than conventional trapping
or poisons, it’s economical,
eco-friendly, and protects
local wildlife,” he added.
Tom and his team of
craftsmen hand make every
owl box out of Mahogany
plywood panels made from
recycled materials. For as
little as $350 installed, you
can get the party started
with a basic owl box.
And buying a box is a
one-time investment, as
they cost nothing to maintain and the owls are very
good at keeping their nest
boxes clean. If you have
more to spend, the Hoo’s
Hoo box with installed cam-

era is one of their best sellers. Just connect the camera to your TV or computer
and enjoy the best reality
show you’ll ever watch. In
fact, Tom installed “Molly’s
Box” in a yard in San
Marcos and it’s livestreamed footage became
an Internet phenomenon.
Tom’s lifelong passion

for birds of prey began in
1962 while doing research
for a wild animal report in
second grade. This led to
much climbing of trees to
better observe birds, which
led to a career as a tree
trimmer (and later a certified arborist.) While bidding a job, he noticed an
improperly hung owl box in

a potential client’s yard. He
offered to install it at the
proper height and angle
needed to attract owls, and
three days later the lady
was thrilled to report that a
pair of barn owls had begun
nesting in it.
“This was the first owl
nest box I installed.” said
Tom. “Now, nearly 25 years
later I have over 36,000
under my belt. I’m so grateful that my passionate
hobby has led me to such a
fulfilling career. I spend my
days sharing my enthusiasm and knowledge of
nature and its inhabitants
with people around the
world. This is my definition
of success.”
Learn
more
at
BarnOwlBoxes.com or call
(760) 445-2023.

Author
of “Estate
Planning and Elder Care”*
It’s National Estate
Planning Awareness Week!
In 2008 the National
Association
of
Estate
Planners
&
Councils
(NAEPC), in conjunction
with Rep. Mike Thompson
(D-CA) and 49 of his colleagues, co-sponsored and
helped pass H. Res. 1499,
which declared the third
week in October National
Estate Planning Awareness
Week. This means that in
2012,
National
Estate
Planning Awareness Week
falls on Oct. 15 through Oct.
21.
Did you know:
The
majority
of
Americans over 65 are totally dependent on their Social
Security checks. With proper
knowledge and planning,
future generations can have
a more secure retirement.
It is estimated that over
120 million Americans do
not have an up-to-date estate
plan to protect themselves
and their families, making
estate planning one of the
most overlooked areas of
personal financial management. With advance planning, issues such as
guardianship of children,
managing bill paying and

assets in the event of sickness or disability, care of a
special needs child, longterm care needs, and distribution of retirement assets
can all be handled with sensitivity and care, a reasonable cost.
The
majority
of
Americans lack the ability to
adequately plan for their
retirement. This can be
changed immediately with
knowledge and the right
planning tools, such as living
trusts,
pourover
wills,
advance health care directives and irrevocable life
insurance trusts (ILITs).
Many people mistakenly
believe that since they aren’t
“rich” they do not need to do
any financial and estate
planning. Estate planning is
not just for the wealthy and
is important for everyone.
This attitude can be financially harmful in the longrun and can be avoided with
proactive action.
You care deeply about
your family and you want to
ensure the assets you have
worked so hard for will go to
them when you die. How
much of your estate will go
to taxes and attorneys? How
much will be left for your
heirs? Your estate plan
determines the answers to
these questions. Therefore,

it is imperative that you take
the time to consider which
estate-planning
options,
such as living trusts, are
available and which are best
for your particular circumstances.
The living trust may also
be called a revocable living
trust, inter vivos (Latin for
“while living”) trust, A-B
trust, or the double trust system. It is named the “living
trust” because it is in effect
during your lifetime and
enables you to observe and
control the trust, giving you
the opportunity to alter or
amend any provisions. This
type of control is not possible with a will or an irrevocable trust.
Remember that the living trust is a creature that is
entirely dependent upon the
words within it. Thus, it
needs to be carefully drafted
to contain the things you
want and which are appropriate to you.
Having a living trust
means that, since all your
assets are inside the trust,
you do not hold title to anything. Since you have nothing in title in your own
name, there is nothing to
probate upon your death.
With these factors in
mind, we are offering estate
planning (for those with

estates under $2 million)
and advanced estate planning workshops (for individuals with higher net worth)
on the following dates:
• Wednesday, May
22, 6 p.m. Encinitas Library,
540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas
• Thursday, May 30,
at 7 p.m., Carlsbad Library,
1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad
Please call (760) 8222640 to secure a spot. Space
is limited. For more information, visit our website at
trustdocprep.com. We look
forward to seeing you there!
If you are unable to attend
the above workshops, please
call to schedule a home
appointment or one at our
convenient Carlsbad office.
Angela has worked with
estate planning attorneys,
including renowned estate
planning attorney Donald J.
Burris (author of “Protecting
Your Assets”) since 1987.
In addition to her book
“Estate Planning and Elder
Care,” she has co-authored
several books on the subject.
She’s been participating in
estate planning seminars
since the early 1990s, and
has been a certified paralegal since 1989.
She is
licensed to work as a legal
document
preparer
in
Arizona and California.
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Tips for keeping smartphone secure
A smartphone can contain a lot of information that
its owner would rather keep
private.
But 39 percent of the
more than 100 million
American adult smartphone
owners fail to take even minimal security measures, such
as using a screen lock, backing up data or installing an
app to locate a missing
phone or remotely wipe its
data, according to Consumer
Reports’ Annual State of the
Net survey.
At least 7.1 million
smartphones were irreparably damaged, lost or stolen
and not recovered last year,
Consumer Reports projects.
Yet 69 percent of smartphone users hadn’t backed
up their data, including photos and contacts.
Just 22 percent had
installed software that could
locate their lost phone.
The report revealed that
though most smartphone
users haven’t suffered serious losses because of their
phone, there are wireless
threats that merit concern.
Among them: malicious software.
Last year, 5.6 million
smartphone users experienced undesired behavior on
their phones, such as the
sending of unauthorized text
messages or the accessing of
accounts without their permission, Consumer Reports
projects. Those symptoms
are indicative of the presence of malicious software.
The location tracking

If you use an insecure Wi-Fi hot spot, Consumer Reports advises that
you make sure apps that handle sensitive data use secure transmission — or use a virtual private network. Image courtesy of Consumer
Reports

feature that all smartphones
have can also leave users vulnerable to wireless threats.
One percent of smartphone
users told surveyors that they
or a person in their household had been harassed or
harmed after someone used
tracking technology to pinpoint their phone’s location.
Consumer Reports also projects that at least 5.1 million
preteens use their own
smartphones.
In doing so, they may
unwittingly disclose personal
information or risk their

safety.
A smartphone can be
quite secure if users take a
few basic precautions,
Consumer Reports found.
Those precautions include:
— Using a strong passcode. A four-digit one, which
23 percent of users reported
using, is better than nothing.
But on Android phones and
iPhones earlier than the
iPhone 5, a thief using the
right software can crack such
a code in 20 minutes, according to Charlie Miller, security
engineer for Twitter. A longer

code that includes letters
and symbols is far stronger.
— Install apps cautiously. Malicious apps may not
lurk around every corner, but
they’re out there and can be
tricky to spot. For example,
Consumer Reports projects
that 1.6 million users had
been fooled into installing
what seemed to be a wellknown brand-name app but
was actually a malicious
imposter. iPhone users have
one source for apps, Apple’s
App Store, where there have
been few reports of malicious apps.
If you use an Androidbased phone, you can get
apps from numerous sources,
so stick with the two most
reputable: Google Play and
Amazon’s Appstore.
— Be alert to insecure
Wi-Fi. A projected 13 million
users engaged in financial
transactions at hot spots in
hotels, retail stores and airports last year. Before using
any app to do business at a
hot spot, users should check
the app’s privacy policy to
see whether it secures wireless transmissions of such
data. Otherwise, they may
disclose sensitive information to a nearby criminal.
— Turn off location
tracking. Disable it except
when it’s needed, such as for
driving directions. Only one
in three smartphone owners
surveyed by Consumer
Reports had turned it off at
times during the previous
year.
— Clean out your old
phone. Before you sell or
recycle your phone, remove
any memory card, restore its
factory settings and make
sure all sensitive info is
deleted.

More than 42 million
women in the United States are
living with some form of cardiovascular disease, and they are
more likely than men to die
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Women with Heart Disease.
Post-menopausal women are
particularly at risk, but all
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in dealing with heart attack
and heart disease.
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The most common risk factors
for heart attack and heart disease are the same for women as
they are for men. They include
high blood pressure and cholesterol,diabetes,smoking,and an
early family history of the conditions. It is important to note
that patients may live with
heart disease for many years
and never have a heart attack.
Female-Specific
Symptoms. Women are more
likely than men to report chest
pain that is intense, sharp, or
burning. However, women do
not always have the typical
symptoms of heart attack:
chest pressure radiating
through the back and arms,
lasting longer than 10 minutes,
with sweating and nausea.
Instead, women may report isolated symptoms that are not
typical in all heart patients.
One study found 70 percent of
women with heart conditions
reported unusual fatigue and
shortness of breath, while
about half said they had experienced sleep disturbance.

Delayed
Doctor’s
Appointment. Studies show
that women will wait longer
than men to go to a doctor after
experiencing chest pain or a
heart attack. This means
women have a greater risk of
dying in the hospital following
a heart attack and tend to die
sooner after they are released
from the hospital. Women
should seek medical treatment
as soon as possible after a heart
attack to avoid experiencing a
longer and more difficult road
to recovery.
False Positive Stress Tests.
A treadmill exercise stress test
performed on a female heart
patient is more likely to result
in a false positive reading,
which can result in an incorrect
diagnosis of heart disease. In a
treadmill stress test, an electrocardiogram (EKG) is used
along with blood-pressure readings to determine the heart’s
performance during exercise.
In healthy patients, blood pressure should increase but the
EKG readings should remain
steady, or else blood flow to the
heart is a concern. However,
women tend to have non-specific EKG changes during exercise, which can lead to a false
positive result. If a physician is
suspicious of a false positive, a
stress echocardiogram or
nuclear stress test, which
images the heart with ultrasound or gamma camera,
respectively,can be used to rule
out the possibility of a blocked
or narrowed heart artery.

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ENCINITAS — Pierre
Sleiman began experimenting with hydroponic farming
in his garage as a college student four years ago. These
days, his company, the
newest tenant on Ecke
Ranch, is on the cutting edge
of organic farming.
Sleiman, now in his mid20s, studied computer science and business in school
— not agriculture. And he
doesn’t come from a family
of farmers. But through hard
work and a lot of trial and
error, he’s made Go Green
Agriculture a key piece in
Ecke Ranch’s future.
Last year, the Carlsbadbased nonprofit Leichtag
Foundation bought the 67acre Ecke Ranch. Among its
goals for the property, the
foundation aims to promote
innovative community and
commercial farming techniques, including organic
hydroponics.
“The foundation has a
vision for what they want to
do on the property, as far as
this new high-tech type of
agriculture, that invites
youth and a new way of
doing things,” Sleiman said.
“We’re very excited to be a
part of that.”
In
Go
Green
Agriculture’s greenhouse,
lettuce, kale and spinach are
harvested throughout the
year — all without dirt or
tractors. Here’s how it works:
Instead of soil, the produce
is kept in trays several feet
off the ground. Nutrient-rich
water is pumped to the roots
of the plants via channels
underneath the trays. Water
that isn’t absorbed by the
plants is collected by a tank
and circulates back into the
system.
“At other farms, you
have seasons,” Sleiman said.
“Here it’s just nonstop.”
There are plenty of
advantages to the soil-free
approach — insects, compost
and pathogens like E. coli
aren’t an issue. Plus, there’s
no runoff, so Go Green
Agriculture uses 85 percent
less water than the average
farm.

Hydroponic farming is
all about tempering the environment. After moving onto
the property this past
December, Go Green retrofitted the roof of greenhouse
once used for cultivating the
poinsettias that made the
Eckes famous, to control the
amount of sunlight that
creeps in. And other variables like temperature and
humidity are continuously
collected via sensors and
analyzed.
In theory, it sounds like
simple automation, or so
Sleiman thought after reading several books about the
technique when he was first
getting into hydroponic
farming.
In practice, Sleiman
said pinpointing the exact
conditions that sprout
healthy crops took a lot of
research and development.
Before leasing six acres on
Ecke Ranch, Go Green operated a nearby half-acre plot
where Sleiman said he
“failed pretty much every
way imaginable.”
“We lost crop after crop
for a year,” Sleiman said. “It
was the steepest learning
curve imaginable.”
Now, with the formula
perfected, Go Green delivers
agriculture to local restaurants and grocers like
Seaside Market nearly every
day, and Go Green is eyeing
other plots of land in
California for expansion.
“We approach this
strictly from a technical or
engineering standpoint,”
said Sleiman, who runs Go
Green with the help of his
mom, sister and dad. “We
think that’s unique in the
farming world.”
Jim Farely, president
and CEO of the Leichtag
Foundation, said the foundation is in the beginning
stages of drawing up plans
for a variety of community
and educational farming
programs at Ecke Ranch.
Alongside these, he envisions a host of farming businesses dedicated to sustainability and supplying the
local market with produce —
and Go Green is the first

piece of the puzzle.
“Go Green Agriculture
will be like the Nordstrom in
our agricultural shopping
center,” Farely said. “Around
them, there will be all sorts
of small, urban farming businesses.”
Preference for plots of
land will go to “young farmers with big ideas,” Farely
said.
Currently, there are two
other tenants on Ecke
Ranch:
flower
grower
Dramm and Echter, as well
as the Dutch-based Agribio
Group. This past fall, Agribio
Group purchased the business assets of the international Paul Ecke Ranch company, including the intellectual property and growing
operations in Guatemala.
The Leichtag Foundation
agreed to lease about six
acres of land on Ecke Ranch
to Agribio for three years.
After the lease is up, Agribio
will likely leave, Farely said.
For the time being, Go
Green is drawing positive
attention to Ecke Ranch.
Tom Vilsack, the U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture,
recently visited Go Green
during a trip to California
to learn more about the
benefits of hydroponic
farming, as well as the challenges of the practice. Many
young farmers are eligible
for grants to help them get
started. Yet there are fewer
available for young hydroponic growers since it’s such
a new technique and not
always classified as farming.
“The Secretary of
Agriculture coming here —
that’s really exciting and
shows we’re going in the
right direction,” Farely said.
Paul Ecke III, who made
the decision to sell Ecke
Ranch to the Leichtag
Foundation, said that all the
recent changes are exciting.
For one, he noted that Go
Green is the first food-related agricultural company on
the property.
“There’s a lot of good
coming to fruition,” Ecke
said. “I love seeing what
they’re doing.”

CARLSBAD — Local
environmentalist
group
Preserve Calavera has
demanded the withdrawal
of Carlsbad City Council’s
decision approving the
Quarry Creek housing
development.
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meeting about the project,
therefore making their
decision invalid.
City Attorney Celia
Brewer has denied that any
closed session meetings on
Quarry Creek took place.
She said that the statement
by Mayor Matt Hall that
Preserve Calavera based its
claims on was a fumbling of
words during a late night

meeting that lasted more
than five hours.
On May 6, Preserve
Calavera’s attorney Everett
DeLano submitted a letter
to the city claiming that
City Council violated the
Brown Act, which requires
city governments to provide
public notice in advance of
closed session meetings and
later publicly report any
action taken during such
meetings.
The group pointed to a
statement that Hall made
during
discussions
of
Quarry Creek at a March 26
City Council meeting.
During the statement
in question, Hall was raising the issue of whether or
not City Council should
continue the meeting,
which at the time had
extended past 11 p.m., or
continue discussions to a
subsequent meeting.
He explained to other
council members that
before they made a final
decision on the Quarry
Creek proposal, “We’re
going to have to give input
on those items that we discussed in closed session so
we can provide the final
documents.”
Brewer said that Hall
misspoke due to the late
hour, and he was instead
referring to items publically brought forth by the
Planning
Commission,
which he had referenced
seconds before.
“It was 11:30 at night,”
she said.
Preserve Calavera has
been the largest, most continuous opposition to the
656-housing unit Quarry
Creek development during
the city’s months-long

review and deliberation.
Dozens of members
have spoken and made presentations against the project at public meetings and
collectively submitted hundreds of pages of correspondence to the city, citing concerns about the project’s
impact on the natural habitat and historical attributes
of the development’s site.
“It is certainly public
knowledge that Preserve
Calavera does not support
the Quarry Creek project as
it was approved,” said
DeLano.
Should the group be
able to establish that a
closed session meeting took
place and actions were
taken, the city would be
required to retract the decision by City Council on
April 2 that approved the
Quarry Creek project,
according to DeLano.
When asked whether
the Brown Act claim was an
attempt
by
Preserve
Calavera to find legal
means to delay or halt
Quarry Creek, DeLano said,
“I don’t think it’s (the allegation) a foil. (Brown Act
violations are) definitely a
part of Preserve Calavera’s
concerns.”
But he said further,
“Does it have Preserve
Calavera’s
attention
because it’s Quarry Creek?
Well, I’d have to say yes.”
He also stated, “If it were
another open government
issue that didn’t involve
Quarry Creek, would they
be involved? I don’t know.”
Brewer said that the
city will respond to
Preserve Calavera’s letter
within 30 days to establish
that no violation occurred.

GOP women to honor
military in the Ranch
RANCHO SANTA FE
— Fairbanks Republican
Women Federated is proud
to present their annual
salute to the military at 5:30
p.m. May 23, honoring
retired Air Force Col.
Martha McSally at an
evening reception at a private home in Rancho Santa
Fe.
FRWF will also be presenting Dave Smith of
Honor Flight San Diego a
donation to benefit Honor
Flight’s mission of hosting
World War II veterans to
visit the WWII Memorial in
Washington, D.C.
McSally was the first
female United States fighter
pilot to fly in combat, and
the first to command a fighter squadron in combat as
well. She earned national

recognition for successfully
overturning a military policy
requiring all U.S. servicewomen to wear a Muslim
abaya and headscarf when
off base in Saudi Arabia.
She ran unsuccessfully
for the congressional seat in
the 2nd district of Arizona,
coming short of victory by
the narrowest margin in the
2012 election cycle.
Guests will gather at
5:30
p.m.
enjoying
Margaritas, wine and a taco
bar. Admission is $30 for
FRWF members and $35 for
those yet to join. Gift cards
for military families will also
be collected.
Make reservations at
fairbanksrepublicanwomen.com or at (858) 3531929. Address and directions
will be given after RSVP.

Children’s charity invites
community to luncheon
COAST CITIES — The
community is invited to
join members of the St.
Germaine
Children’s
Charity at its annual
Membership and Awards
luncheon June 6 with registration beginning at
11:30 a.m. at La Jolla
Beach and Tennis Club.
Register
online
at
app.etapestry.com/hosted/StGermaineChildrensC
harity/EventRegistration.
html. Tickets are $85 each.
The event is to award
grants and to celebrate
with the 2013-14 recipients.
St.
Germaine
Children’s Charity will
announce and award 18
2013 grants to local agencies that help combat
child abuse in San Diego
County, including the
Barbara
Christiansen
Heart of San Diego
Founder’s
Award.
Applicants are reviewed
and evaluated by a sixteen-member panel, and
agency site visits are part
of the evaluation.
This year’s guest
speaker is Mack Jenkins
from the San Diego
County
Probation
Department, who will
share his office’s perspective on child abuse prevention. Also, during the
event, the outgoing board
members are recognized
and new board members

are voted on for installation.
All donations made to
the
organization
are
directed to the grant recipients. This year $148,000
will be awarded. The
money is raised through
the annual St. Germaine
Silver Tea, a San Diego
holiday tradition, and by
other donations throughout the year.
St. Germaine, a secular community organization, sponsors social service agencies responsible
for the care, shelter, and
treatment of abused and
at-risk children from birth
to age 18.
In addition to annual
monetary awards and
grants to support program
services, the organization
provides clothing, equipment, toys, school supplies, household items,
and
volunteer
time
through our members and
community partners.
St. Germaine relies on
fundraising events such as
the annual Silver Tea in
December, cash donations,
membership dues, and inkind donations to support
the programs.
Founded in 1984, it is
staffed entirely by volunteers, the organization’s
administrative costs are
paid through membership
dues.

NO ONE WILL WORK HARDER FOR YOU.

I PROMISE.
Lisa Giacomini
Senior Loan Officer

760.644.0279
Lgiacomini@firstcal.net
NMLS# 290781

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RANCHO SANTA FE NEWS

MAY 17, 2013

Lone Pine Film History Museum pays homage to industry
E’LOUISE
ONDASH
Hit the Road
The celebration of the history of moviemaking in and
around Lone Pine, Calif., started as a film festival and morphed into a museum.
Today, the Lone Pine Film
History Museum pays homage
to the movie and television
industry and the stars of past
and present with its exhibits of
hundreds of posters, artifacts,
memorabilia and one-of-a-kind
cars. Think icons like John
Wayne; Gene Autry; Roy
Rogers;
William
Boyd
(Hopalong Cassidy); Clayton
Moore (The Lone Ranger); Jay
Silverheels (Tonto); Randolph
Scott; and Johnny Mack
Brown.
Also
think
Robert
Downey Jr.; Demi Moore; Brad
Pitt; Kevin Bacon; Mel Gibson;
Kirk
Douglas;
William
Shatner; James Garner; and
Gregory Peck .
The list goes on, but the
common denominator is that
all of these actors and dozens

more spent days, weeks and
months in Lone Pine territory
making the movies we know
and love.
Early on in filmmaking
history, the landscape of the
Eastern Sierra was seen as the
ideal place to shoot westerns,
dramas and sci-fi flicks, according to museum director and an
Inyo County film commissioner Christopher Langley. He
arrived in Lone Pine, population 2,035, some 40 years ago
by way of Dartmouth College
and the Peace Corp.The mountains and geological formations, the valleys, the exquisite
light both early and late in the
day — all made for attractive,
dramatic and majestic backdrops.
“Eventually the importance of a museum was evident,” Langley said. And
thanks to large donations of
money and artifacts from
Beverly and Jim Rogers of
Intermountain
West
Communications Company,
the idea became reality.
My husband and I discovered the museum driving south
on Highway 395 on our way
home from Mammoth Lakes.
We made a quick U-turn to
check it out, and the stop was
well worth abandoning our

Valley area.
“(In 2011), we brought in
$10.5 million,” he told the Inyo
Register last year. Langley also
writes a regular column for the
Register to keep residents
informed about area projects,
and conducts several tours of
filming and historical sites.
“I think our museum is
different than others because
we can actually go out to our
‘back lot’ and see where the
films are shot — see where
John Wayne or Gregory Peck
stood.”
The museum can serve as
a break room for directors,
Filmmakers used the Eastern actors and crew. For instance,
Sierra near Lone Pine as a back- in 2011 while filming “Django
drop in the first “Iron Man,” starring
Unchained,”
Quentin
Robert Downey, Jr. Photo courtesy
Tarantino
rented
the
museum
According to the Lone Pine Film of the Lone Pine Film History
to show spaghetti westerns to
History Museum, singing cowboy Museum
Gene Autry is the only entertainer
to have five stars on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame. He earned them for
his work in film, television, radio,
recording and live performance.
From the late 1930s to the mid1950s, Autry and his horse,
Champion, made more than 20
theatrical features and 12 TV
episodes in the Lone Pine area.
Photo courtesy of the Lone Pine Film
History Museum

schedule.
The custom, over-the-top,
be-horned 1975 Cadillac El

The cast of “Django Unchained” relaxed at the Lone Pine Film History Museum during filming in 2011. From
left: director Quentin Tarantino; actors Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and James Russo; and Inyo Film
Commissioner Christopher Langley. Courtesy photo

Dorado that sits just inside the
door tells visitors immediately
that this place is a gem. The
car, once owned by famed
Hollywood costume designer
Nudie Cohn, is one of several
unique autos given to the
museum. Surrounding the El
Dorado are posters, artifacts,
memorabilia and souvenirs
from movies, television shows
and commercials that compete
for attention in the 10,500square-foot building.
The extensive list of
movies produced in this area
includes “Star Trek V” and
“Star TrekVII;”“Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen;”
“Around the World in 80
Days;” “The Great Race;”
“Gladiator;” “G.I. Jane;” “How
the West Was Won;”
“Maverick;”
“Kalifornia;”
“Have Gun, Will Travel;”
“Wagon Train;” and the “The
Rockford Files.”
The latest Superman
movie,“Man of Steel,” also was
filmed near Lone Pine.
“We want to tie the museum into the present as well as
the past,” said Langley, whose
job as a film commissioner is to
help filmmakers find what
they need in the Lone
Pine/Eastern Sierra/Death

cast and crew.When he saw the
exhibit dedicated to the first
“Iron Man” film, Langley said,
“he said he wanted his exhibit
to be better than the ‘Iron
Man’ exhibit, so he gave us the
dentist’s wagon.”
Tarantino also donated
his director’s chair and an autographed copy of the working
script.
The museum is open
every day except Christmas
and New Year’s Day.Admission
is $5.
Visit lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org/, or call (760) 8769100.
E’Louise Ondash is a freelance writer living in North County. Tell her about your
travels at eondash@coastnewsgroup.com.

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MAY 17, 2013

RANCHO SANTA FE NEWS

Water board works on run-off problems community
CALENDAR
COAST CITIES — The
California Regional Water
Quality Control Board, San
Diego Region, approved a
regional municipal separate
storm water sewer system
(MS4) permit May 8 designed
to prevent pollutants such as
trash, metals, bacteria, chemicals and pesticides from
being washed into storm
drains and into creeks, rivers
and the ocean.
Called a Regional MS4
Permit, it is a region-wide
National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES)
Permit that will regulate MS4
discharges to inland surface
waters, bays and estuaries
and coastal waters throughout the three counties within
the San Diego Region.
The Regional MS4

Permit will jointly cover 39
municipal, county government, and special district
entities (referred to jointly as
co-permittees) located in San
Diego County, Southern
Orange
County
and
Southwestern
Riverside
County, who own and operate
large MS4s which discharge
storm water (wet weather)
runoff and non-storm water
(dry weather) runoff to surface waters throughout the
San Diego Region.
The co-permitees will be
covered by the new Regional
MS4 Permit in a phased a
manner as their current MS4
permits expire or upon
request for earlier coverage
prior to permit expiration.
Storm water runoff is a
major state-wide water quali-

ty problem, posing a threat to
human health and water
ecosystems.
In the San Diego Region,
pollutants in urban runoff
have caused beach closings,
impairment of streams,
creeks, and bays, fish consumption warnings, reduced
habitat for threatened and
endangered species and
unsightly accumulations of
trash and debris in surface
waters.
“The new storm water
permit is designed to give
municipalities the flexibility
to implement a watershedbased approach to restoring
and maintaining the health of
our waters in the most affordable, effective, and measureable way,” said San Diego
Water Board Executive
Officer David Gibson.
Gibson explained the
watershed approach is necessary to uniformly regulate
storm water runoff in all
three counties and provide
the
community-based
approach most likely to
achieve lasting improvements
in water quality.
A key feature of the
Regional MS4 Permit is that
it provides a flexible and
adaptive process for the copermittees to select and
address the highest priority
water quality issues.

The process also allows
the co-permittees to build
upon their efforts to achieve
goals that will yield the greatest water quality improvements.
The regional approach
also offers the opportunity to
better achieve regulatory consistency as well as maximum
efficiency and economy of
resources for both the San
Diego Water Board and the
co-permittees.
The Regional MS4
Permit requires cities and
towns in the regional board
jurisdiction to develop a plan
to reduce the pollutants in
storm water, to prevent nonstorm water discharges, and
to monitor the results and
take corrective action when
goals are not met.
Storm water discharge
permit holders have a wide
range of strategies available
under the new permit to
reduce pollution including
public education of residents
for activities like car washing
and pesticide use, retrofitting
of existing areas with permeable materials to remove pollutants, and requiring engineering practices that allow
for storm water capture and
re-use.
For more information on
the Regional MS4 Permit, visit
waterboards.ca.gov

Got an item for the calendar?
Send the details via email to
calendar@coastnewsgroup.com.

MARK THE DATE
WINE TIME The Encinitas
Rotary Wine Festival will be
from 5 to 8 p.m. June 1 at the
San Diego Botanic Garden to
benefit
the
Community
Resource Center. For more
information call (760) 2306304.

QEULLE

FROMAGE

Southern Caregiver Resource
Center hosts its Bastille Day
fundraiser 4 to 8 p.m. July 13
at
Fairbanks
Ranch
Clubhouse, 16401 Circa Del
Norte, Rancho Santa Fe with
French cuisine from French
Gourmet, wine tastings and a
silent auction. Tickets can be
purchased for $150 online at
caregivercenter.org.

TPHS

MATH

MANIA

Come enjoy Advanced Math
Open House at Torrey Pines
High School, a showcase of
advanced math courses from
6:30 to 8 p.m. May 28 at Torrey
Pines High School Gym, 3710
Del Mar Heights Road, featuring students from Abby
Brown's math classes will
present projects to represent
their knowledge in various
math topics.
DEMOCRATS MEET The
Rancho Santa Fe Democratic
Club will host San Diego
Mayor Bob Filner at 6:30 p.m.
May 23, Lomas Santa Fe CC,
1505 Lomas Santa Fe Drive,
Solana Beach. Non-members
and/or guests: $25, payable by
at the door.

MAY 17
CARNIVAL

TIME

El
Camino Creek Elementary
invites all to its carnival from
3 to 7 p.m. May 17 on campus
at 7885 Paseo Aliso, Carlsbad.
Enjoy rides, games, food, a
cakewalk, face-painting, photo
booth, a classic auto show and
more. Wristbands are $20 and
single tickets $1. Admission is
free. The proceeds will support music, science and technology.

MAY 17
DINE AGAINST CANCER
A Farm-to-Table organic
vegan, five-course, prix-fixe
fundraising dinner and Pop
Up Shop will be from 6 to 11
p.m. May 18 at 1057-A S. Coast
Highway, Oceanside, on
behalf of the Keep A Breast
(KAB) Foundation. For more
details, visit action.keep-abreast.org/encinitas/events/far
m-to-table/e24693.

Show will be held from 6:30 to
9 p.m. May 18 at the Encinitas
Community Center, 1140
Oakcrest Park Drive, with
fashions from local shops. The
event benefits Carol’s House
and
other
Community
Resource Center programs.
Tickets at DEMA office, 818 S.
Coast Highway 101 or encinitas101.com.
PROTECT YOUR SKIN For
Melanoma Awareness Month,
Art of Skin MD and other
retailers in Beachwalk Center,
Solana Beach will host
SolSearch 2013 on behalf of
the Skin Cancer Foundation
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and a
fundraiser party from 4 to 7
p.m. May 18. To RSVP for the
party, visit skincancer.donorpages.com/2013SolSearch.
SAVING SPECIES From 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. May 18, the
Buena Vista Audubon Society
celebrates
Endangered
Species Day at the Nature
Center, 2202 S. Coast
Highway, Oceanside. Family
fun with scavenger hunts,
tracking, story times and
crafts. For more information,
call BVAS at (760) 439-2473.

MAY 19
TOUR

THE

RANCHO

Enjoy a free weekend tour of
Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic
Park, 6200 Flying Leo Carrillo
Lane, Carlsbad. The 90minute, docent-led tours are
held Saturdays at 11 a.m. and
1 p.m. and Sundays at noon
and 2 p.m. Wear comfortable
walking shoes or boots.
Reservations are not required.
BREAKING FREE Agua
Hedionda Lagoon Discovery
Center Trails will be the site
for the Hospice of the North
Coast butterfly release 2 to 4
p.m. May 19 at 1580 Cannon
Road, Carlsbad. To register,
call (760) 431-4100.

MAY 21
BONSAI BUNCH Bonsai
and Beyond Club meets in the
Ecke Building at the San
Diego Botanical Garden every
month on the third Tuesday of
the month at 6 p.m. for tray
landscapes, Bonsai and more.
FASHION FIRST North
Coast Women's Connection
invites you to “One Thousand
Years of Fashion,” by Jean
Showalter, with guest speaker,
Donna Jacobson on “Chosen
Twice for Adoption” from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m. May 21 at the
Lomas Santa Fe Country Club,
505 Lomas Santa Fe Drive,
Solana Beach. $22 at the door.

MAY 22
LOOKING AT OCD Learn

what obsessive compulsive
disorder (OCD) feels like from
the inside at “Rewind, Replay,
Repeat” by Jeff Bell from 11
a.m. to 1:30 p.m. May 22 at the
Hyatt Regency La Jolla, 3777
La Jolla Village Drive, La
HIGH
FASHION
The Jolla. Tickets are $55 and $5
Encinitas Lifestyles Fashion for self-parking. For more
information, call (858) 6373231.

MAY 18

HEALTH
CARE
AND
YOUR BUSINESS North
Coast San Diego Society for
Human
Resource
Management “Health Care
Reform – Part I - What Will It
Cost Your Company?” with a
7:30 a.m. registration and networking and 8 a.m. breakfast
and presentation May 22 at
the Sheraton Resort & Spa,
5480 Grand Pacific Drive,
Carlsbad. For reservations,
visit sdshrm.org.

MAY 23
RSF LIBRARY FUN The
Rancho Santa Fe Library,
17040 Avenida de Acacias,
offers story times at 10:30 a.m.
for preschoolers Tuesdays and
for toddlers on Fridays. At
3:30 p.m. May 23 - Memorial
Day Craft and 3:30 p.m. May
30 - “Reading is Soooo
Delicious,” introduction to the
Summer Reading Program
2013, which begins June 15.

B13

RANCHO SANTA FE NEWS

MAY 17, 2013

EDUCATIONAL O PPORTUNITIES

Winston School hosts dinner
The Winston School is
celebrating 25 years of educating students with learning differences. The school
hosted a dinner celebration
for 500 Winston students,
alumni, their families,
teachers, friends and supporters including members
of the Del Mar City Council
on April 20. Guests traveled
from as far away as Tucson
and Baton Rouge to attend
and many of the alumni
attendees had only spent
their middle school years at
Winston, but were deeply
affected by their experience.
Emceed
by
Mike
Peterson, the school’s headmaster for eight years, the
evening highlights included
the Winston Blues Band and
the Winston High School
Band performances, the
school's first graduate
Tallie-Mae Gibson, as well
as the previous headmaster
and current board president
Mark Kimball and one of
the school's founders Dr.
Sarita Eastman.
The
presentations,
music, dancing, game truck,
photo booth and kid's corner added fun and excitement to an already festive
event, but the essence of the
evening was more profound
as captured in Peterson's
words, “Who knew such a
small school could be so
big?”
Graduate
Brian
Lafferty offered a student's
perspective on Facebook:
"Saturday night was

filled to the brim with fun,
good times, and nostalgia.
The Winston School of Del
Mar celebrated its 25th
anniversary at the Mission
Tower at the Del Mar
Fairgrounds….I owe my life
and much of my success to
The Winston School. Getting
me into this fine program
was the best thing my mother - bless her soul - ever did
for me."
While Brian's story is

Who knew
such a small
school could be
so big?”
Mike Peterson
Headmaster

the only one featured here,
it's one of hundreds that
students past and present
and their family and friends
could tell as this school
changes lives for all
involved. Often a last stop
after a student's odyssey
through other schools,
Winston becomes an immediate game changer, teaching students in a way that he
or she learns and not the
other way around.
By seeking to find a student’s
passions
and
strengths, both the student
and the school are successful.
So for students who
failed classes, struggled to

make friends, and had little
hope of ever graduating,
they discover learning differently is simply a difference and being accepted is
the norm.
At the 25th anniversary
party, many found themselves looking back and giving credit to the school for
the life they live today.
Brian's story says it all. He
and they found their place
at Winston.

ABOUT THE
WINSTON SCHOOL
The Winston School is a
college preparatory program which offers hope and
success for children with
learning differences in
grades 4 through 12. A
group of pediatricians and
parents in San Diego founded the school in 1988 for
bright children whose needs
were not being met in traditional school settings.
Students such as those
struggling with autism,
Asperger’s
Syndrome,
dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADD, ADHD, specific
learning disabilities or
learning disorders, nonverbal learning disorders and
slow maturation find what
they need in the school’s
small, safe and caring environment. For more information visit www.thewinstonschool.com,
contact
mindyk@thewinstonschool.com or call 858-2598155.

North County is the home to
superb educational opportunities
When folks talk about
some of the leading centers in
the country for great education, places like Cambridge,
MA – home of MIT and
Harvard University, or Palo
Alto, CA – home of Stanford
University and Silicon Valley,
often come to mind. Now it’s
time for North San Diego
County to enter into the discussion.
“We have a powerful K12 system, two excellent community colleges, one of the
highest-in-demand state college campuses in California,
and we have a number of private institutions and programs,” said Dr. Jan Jackson,
who chairs the board at the
San Diego North Economic
Development Council and
serves as vice president for
community engagement at
Cal State San Marcos.
The North County region
also boasts a long tradition of
superb cooperation among
local K-12 community colleges, Cal State San Marcos,
and private universities and
colleges. No matter where you
turn, the focus in North
County education is to ensure
that students get the degrees
or skills they need to flourish
in the workplace.
A report produced last
year by BW Research
Partnership of Carlsbad found
that North County businesses
employed some 22,000 people
in the areas of innovation and
specialized manufacturing in

2012, accounting for about 8
percent of the workforce. The
report anticipates growth of
more than 1,400 jobs over the
next four years in these fields,
which paid an average annual
salary of $93,442 in 2011. Jobs
in professional, scientific and
technical services, meanwhile, are anticipated to
increase by more than 8 percent by 2017, with jobs in the
government and health care
sectors expected to rise by
nearly 10 percent each.
In order to prepare our
local students for these highpaying local jobs, educational
institutions in our area have
teamed up with industry. Case
in point, MiraCosta College
and Cal State San Marcos
offer superb biotechnology
programs. In fact, MiraCosta
College’s biotechnology facility, built with donations from
local industry, has been named
a Center of Excellence by the
U.S. Department of Labor. Our
three local colleges also collectively prepare hundreds of students each year for jobs in the
health care fields. And earlier
this year, MiraCosta College
teamed up with the National
Tooling
and
Machining
Association, the City of
Oceanside, and others to create a program that prepares
students for careers as trained
machinists.
Our local community colleges are also working to
ensure teenagers are prepared
for higher education. Among

programs in which MiraCosta
and Palomar colleges take
part is GEAR UP.Through this
federally funded project, colleges work with and track middle school students from disadvantaged areas through their
first year of college. MiraCosta
College also offers Summer
Bridge, a six-week program
that focuses on getting graduating African-American high
school students to strengthen
their academic skills, develop
a peer support network and
familiarize themselves with
the demands of college life.
Once students attend
community colleges like
MiraCosta College, they can
take advantage of transfer
agreements with several UC
and CSU campuses, including
Cal State San Marcos. Last
year alone, more than 3,600
MiraCosta College students
transferred to nearly every UC
and CSU in California and to
colleges and universities
throughout the country.
In short, the North
County region is home to a system where local K-12 districts
work hard preparing students
to attend schools like
MiraCosta College, who in
turn prepare those students to
attend local universities or
train them to join our local
workforce. It is this commitment to superb educational
opportunities that make North
County a bastion of education,
one where anything is possible.

At the Rhoades School, we nurture the development of gifted students from kindergarten through eighth grade. We balance a challenging curriculum with an added
emphasis on social development, and are guided by four basic principles:
• We teach our students how to think, not
what to think.
• How we teach is as important as what we
teach.
• We work to instill a sense of healthy
competition, collaboration and confidence.
• Satisfying our students’ hunger for learning is more important than standardized
test scores.
Now accepting applications for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Our Mission: The Rhoades
School supports the positive
development of bright, academically advanced, productive, creative, and socially able
students in grades kindergarten through eight. Here, students are provided with an
appropriate curriculum, a supportive peer group, and suitable guidance in an encouraging and thoughtful manner.
We seek to establish in each
student a singular love of learning for its own sake.
The Rhoades School was
founded on the realization
that there was a distinct need
for a program which comprehensively met the needs of
gifted students. Even among

other esteemed private
schools, The Rhoades School
stands out as our mission
uniquely and distinctively
targets students that are gifted and talented.
The uncommon abilities
of extremely bright students
require that the educators
with whom they work have an
in-depth understanding of,
not only multiple academic
subject areas and the most
effective methods by which
to teach those subjects, but
also a sensitivity to the
unique social needs that are
often present in the profiles
of gifted and talented students.
We are a school of 300
total student body, with typi-

cally two classes of each
grade level. Our students
enjoy small class sizes and a
specialized faculty, with
expert instruction outside of
the child’s homeroom beginning in kindergarten. These
specialized classes include
Science, Technology, Spanish,
Music, Physical Education
and Art. We are located on
Rancho Santa Fe Road in
south Encinitas on the border
of Encinitas and Rancho
Santa Fe.
We
are
currently
enrolling for the 2013-2014
school year. Please contact
Call Kem Graham at 760-4361102 or kgraham@rhoadesschool.com to schedule a private tour.

Ninety percent of Pacific Academy
students achieve honor roll status
Enrolling in a quality
college preparatory school
enhances students’ chances
of attaining the academic
and emotional preparation
needed to succeed at the
university level and beyond.
This preparation ideally
starts in Middle School.
Pacific Academy, established
in 1997, has been a private

individual needs and learning styles. Parents receive
frequent progress reports
and are encouraged to contact staff. As a result, rather
than possibly falling through
the cracks in a crowded public school, ninety percent of
Pacific Academy students
achieve honor roll status. In
addition, students receive

school for grades 7-12. In
order to best serve students
and its community, Pacific
Academy is expanding it’s
Middle School Program, to
serve 6th grade. Middle
School Students at Pacific
Academy enjoy a 1:10
teacher-student ratio unattainable by today’s public
budget strapped schools.
Smaller class sizes allow
teachers to provide hands-on
project-based learning and
community based learning
that students find relevant
and enjoyable. Teachers
actively identify student
strengths and develop individual education plans that
include parents and cater to

individualized college counseling, starting in the 6th
grade, to provide all the support needed through the
developmental process.
This Middle School
expansion will allow 6th
graders to take advantage of
middle school programs and
privileges experienced by
our students. All of our students, high school and middle school, participate in
exploratory education each
Friday and may include community service projects,
field trips, workshops, guest
presentations, or student
projects. All teachers have
full teaching credentials and
bachelor degrees, and many

hold Masters or Doctorates
in Education like Dr. Erika
Sanchez, Pacific Academy’s
principal, who earned a
Masters and Doctoral degree
in sociology with an emphasis in education.
“Our ultimate aim,”
stated Erika Sanchez, “is to
develop ‘Global Citizens’ of
the 21st century, critical
thinkers [who] make choices
guided by respect for oneself
and others.” Character traits
like responsibility or cooperation permeate the curriculum each quarter, and students who demonstrate the
emphasized character trait,
receive recognition. Mr.
Vikas Srivastava, this semester’s project-based learning
facilitator, and all students
collaborated and are planning a three-legged walk
that pairs students from
diverse backgrounds in an
effort to eliminate discrimination and stereotyping. Mr.
Vikas explains, “The theory
is that everyone is diverse
because we all have unique
stories, and if we got to know
one another’s stories, we
would have more understanding and compassion
between us.” After participating in numerous projects
like this one, it’s no surprise
that Pacific Academy students become compassionate, creative, inquisitive, and
responsible global citizens.

Importantly, the results aren’t
dependent on the years surrounding the housing crash,
when millions of Americans
became underwater on their
mortgages. This is a deeply
seeded trend.
The study controls for
characteristics like age and
education, but the authors caution against reading too deeply.
The results are what they are,
but correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causation. “We are
unable, in this paper, to say
exactly why, or to give a complete explanation for the patterns that are found, but our
study’s results are consistent
with the unusual idea that the
housing market can create
dampening externalities upon

the labor market and the economy,” they write.
One 2011 study looking at
household debt accumulation
— most of which is mortgage
debt — showed that auto sales
in regions where debt accumulation was the highest during
the boom were down 40 percent since 2005. In regions
where debt accumulation was
the lowest, auto sales were up
30 percent. Same stuff for ZIP
codes that have a high percentage of homes with underwater
mortgages. The “American
dream” of owning a home can
be detrimental to the
“American dream” of a strong
economy. Now, owning a home
makes sense for a lot of people.
But to me, the study has two

obvious takeaways. One is that
while many of us focus relentlessly on the costs of renting —
you’re throwing your money
down the toilet! — the costs of
owning a home can be far
greater. Worse, those costs are
largely hidden, since it’s hard to
calculate the price of not being
able to easily move for a new
job.
Two, there are hidden
costs to subsidizing homeownership. The highly popular
mortgage interest deduction is
one of the largest tax deductions in existence. The FHA is
now a major player in the mortgage market. Both seek to promote homeownership without
much thought about the knockon costs,like lower job mobility.

THE MOTLEY FOOL INVESTOR by Morgan Housel
Mostly by accident, I have
never owned a home, and I consider it one of the best financial
moves I’ve ever made.
Not because suffering
through one of the worst real
estate downturns in history
would have slammed my
finances, although that’s likely
true. But because in the last
four years, my wife and I have
lived in four different locations
in three different states on
each side of the country. Each
move was driven by work and
school opportunities that
would have been out of reach
had we been tied down to one

home.
Our story is hardly unique.
In one of the most telling studies looking at the benefits of
home ownership, economists
Andrew Oswald and David
Blanchflower ask, “does high
home-ownership impair the
labor market?”
Their answer is “yes.”
Looking at regional data
since 1980, the pair found “A
doubling of the rate of homeownership in a U.S. state is followed in the long run by more
than a doubling of the later
unemployment rate.” That’s
simply massive.

The study makes clear
that homeowners don’t necessarily have higher rates of
unemployment. Instead — and
this is really important — they
conclude that high rates of
homeownership affect the
entire labor market through
lower rates of productivity and
entrepreneurship.
Regions with higher
homeownership created fewer
new businesses and had longer
commute times and lower rates
of labor mobility. All three
impose costs on the labor market and eventually lead to overall lower rates of employment.

communication, knowing
where to be and line up;
and he’s going to help us,”
Butler said.
Butler described Te’o a
“high-energy guy who likes
learning, asking a lot of
questions, always trying to
get better. And that’s all
that we can ask for.”
As for the veteran
Rivers, McCoy said he was
doing a phenomenal job of
learning what they’re
doing and buying into the
change.
“This is completely
different for him. What he’s
doing out there is rare. He’s
picked it up so fast,” he
said.
Rivers said their first
day was off to a “good
start,” adding that he has a
way to go learning the verbiage of the new system. “I
can handle what we’ve
done,” he said. “I feel fine
running it, but I’m glad
we’re not playing this
week.”
A majority of the passes made during the first

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dents who want to work on
MavLife next year will have
to do it after school, potentially interfering with other
extracurricular activities.
Mineiro said she would have
to quit the cross country and
track teams in order to find
the time to fulfill her duties
as editor in chief.
Ruggles said the school
will still provide a stipend to
whomever advises the journalism program next year.
Suzi Van Steenbergen, who
teaches the journalism class,
said regardless of the deci-

REPAIR

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along.
“It’s easier to justify
repairing your bike than continuously putting money
toward new ones,” Contreras
said.
Not only is this good for
his business, but making
what’s old new again sits
well with Contreras, who
specializes in repurposing
old bikes.
“The philosophy of
Schwinn used to be that you
would give a bike to your oldest kid and it would eventually make its way to your
youngest,” Contreras said.
“I like that more people
are supporting that idea
these days,” he added.
On the opposite side of
the
spectrum,
Skip
McDowell, the owner of the
high-end Nytro Multisport,
said that he went from one
full-time mechanic and one
part-timer three years ago to
three full-time mechanics.
McDowell attributes the
spike in demand to bike
shops becoming more like
car dealerships. To retain
customers, those who purchase a bike are encouraged
to come in regularly for tuneups and other services.
“They want to protect
their investment,” McDowell
said.
McDowell noted that

sion on next year’s journalism class, she will keep her
job teaching AP English
Language and Composition
as well as AVID, a college
readiness course.
MavLife’s circulation
ranges from 1,000 to 1,500
copies, Mineiro said. The
journalism students sell
advertising and subscriptions to cover the roughly
$1000 it costs to print each
issue, so the status of the
course will not affect funding to cover printing costs.
Ruggles said the school
is struggling with a drop in
enrollment.
There will be 800 fewer

students on campus this fall
than there were three years
ago, he said. As a result,
administrators have been
forced to cut staff and programs.
Those cuts are hurting
students and weakening
school spirit, said Chase
McAllister, a MavLife photographer who spoke at the
May 2 board meeting.
“Journalism being cut is
just one of the many things
that is diminishing on our
campus,” McAllister said.
MavLife Sports Editor
Anthony Fregoso said the
district should prioritize La
Costa Canyon’s journalism

class because it fulfills many
of the Common Core standards by which the district
must abide.
“It seems that cutting
this course at this time is the
exact opposite of what we
should be doing,” Fregoso
said.
California’s Brown Act
barred SDUHSD board
members from discussing
the issues presented by the
students,
but
board
President Barbara Groth
asked
Deputy
Superintendent
Rick
Schmitt to investigate the
matter on behalf of the district.

cycling repair is becoming
more science than art at
upscale shops with the proliferation of high-tech bikes
that feature carbon fiber
frames and electronic shifting.
“It used to be you
learned everything from
‘tribal knowledge’ — those
around you in your shop,”
McDowell said. “But now,
you have complicated diagnostic and computer tools
that take special training to
operate.”
“We’re not just talking
about fixing gears with a
simple wrench,” McDowell
added. “Everything has to be
fine tuned just so.”
Consequently, more people are obtaining bike repair
certifications in order to
land jobs in the field. And
McDowell said he regularly
sends his mechanics to classes so they stay on top of technology developments.
Jon Baxter, an administrator at the United Cycle
Institute in Oregon, one of
the three mechanic schools
in the country, concurred
that more shops are requiring mechanic certifications.
Typically, in May, he said the
institute’s job board consistently has around 50 or 60
postings from bike shops
throughout the nation. But
this year, he said the number
is more than 100.
Although there’s more

demand for mechanics,
what’s interesting is that
bike sales are relatively flat
throughout the country,
Baxter said.
“Young people aren’t as
crazy about driving, so
they’re picking up cycling,”
Baxter said. “Rather than
buy new bikes, they’re dusting off bikes that are already
out there and taking them in
for repair.”
Baxter
noted
that
obtaining
certification
involves a month of intensive
classes. Currently, there
aren’t universal requirements for what’s covered in
bike schools’ curriculum. But
shops accept certifications
from the three major repair
schools, which are outside
California, as the industry
standard.
Fred Breidenthal, owner
of Leucadia Cyclery, said
that Internet sales have provided a shot in the arm to
repair work. He noted that
some customers buy hightech suspension kits online,
only later to realize they
need help installing them.
Still, most of his repair work
comes from bicyclists running over thorns.
And while bike repairs
are on the upswing,
Breidenthal said the wages
for the profession — ranging
from $10 to $16 an hour —
have been stagnant the past
few years. Pay could jump if

a bike mechanic shortage
develops in the county, he
said.
Breidenthal said that
there’s been a slight uptick
in cyclist traffic on Coast
Highway 101 due to bikefriendly infrastructure projects. Two months ago, the
city painted a new bike lane
and “sharrows” — markings
that remind cyclists and
motorists to share the road
— on the highway. For
Breidenthal, whose shop is a
street east of Coast Highway
101, more bicyclists frequenting the area “has provided a nice little boost of
customers.”
Andy Hanshaw, executive director of the San
Diego
County
Bicycle
Coalition said that more people are recognizing the growing economic impact of
cycling — and bike mechanics play an important part in
that.
In the state’s 50th
Congressional
District,
which includes much of
North County, bike retailers
brought in an estimated
$11.8 million in gross income
in 2011, according to the
League
of
American
Bicyclists.
“It’s green living that’s
good for the economy,”
Hanshaw said, adding that
bike mechanics are “vital” to
the health of the biking
industry.

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jammed. As a result, I didn’t expect her to clean in
there at all, so I failed to
stack. I love that she couldn’t resist removing the several layers of grit that has
piled up, but I spent a
good part of the next day
searching for one thing,
then another. Since nothing is really where it
belongs to begin with, it
got truly challenging.
But
it
was
an
epiphany. Now I truly
understand what “My
cleaning lady moved it and
I can’t find it” means. As
frustrating as it is from the
librarian’s side, I now have
a deeper understanding of
the syndrome.
Which brings me back

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made a final decision on the
Quarry Creek proposal,
“We’re going to have to give
input on those items that we
discussed in closed session
so we can provide the final
documents.”
Brewer said that Hall
misspoke due to the late
hour, and he was instead
referring to items publically
brought forth by the
Planning
Commission,
which he had referenced
seconds before.
“It was 11:30 at night,”
she said.
Preserve Calavera has
been the largest, most continuous opposition to the
656-housing unit Quarry
Creek development during
the city’s months-long
review and deliberation.
Dozens of members have
spoken and made presentations against the project at
public meetings and collectively submitted hundreds of
pages of correspondence to
the city, citing concerns
about the project’s impact
on the natural habitat and
historical attributes of the
development’s site.
“It is certainly public
knowledge that Preserve

day of OTAs were intermediate passes rather than
long throws down field,
something that Rivers
noted.
Wearing a glove on his
left hand, Rivers also said
that most of the footballs
he’s thrown this year so far
have been made while
wearing gloves, though he’s
not yet fully committed to
playing with them or not.
On whether Rivers
thought it was unfair or not
that some are saying this is
a make-or-break year for
him: “Unfair? I don’t really
get caught up into worrying about what people
think; I really don’t. I think
of it that way every year
because you’ve got to win
and we haven’t won enough
the last few and ultimately
that gets pointed at the
quarterback and like I said,
I deserve my share of it.
But it’s a new go at it, a new
year….
“Good luck predicting
what’s going to happen.
We’ve got a chance to go
win a game, and we’ve got
16 of them and see where
we stand.”
to throwing myself on the
mercy of cleaning persons
everywhere. Just don’t
move it. Or I would be
especially grateful if you
might just pick it up, dust
under it and put it back
where
it
was.
Remembering
where
things are is getting tough
enough for me these days.
And besides, we need
those books back. I thank
you.
Librarians
everywhere will thank you.

Jean Gillette is a freelance writer
with a photographic memory but
someone left the darkroom door
open. Contact her at jgillette@coastnewsgroup.com.

Calavera does not support
the Quarry Creek project as
it was approved,” said
DeLano.
Should the group be
able to establish that a
closed session meeting took
place and actions were
taken, the city would be
required to retract the decision by City Council on April
2 that approved the Quarry
Creek project, according to
DeLano.
When asked whether
the Brown Act claim was an
attempt
by
Preserve
Calavera to find legal means
to delay or halt Quarry
Creek, DeLano said, “I don’t
think it’s (the allegation) a
foil. (Brown Act violations
are) definitely a part of
Preserve Calavera’s concerns.”
But he said further,
“Does it have Preserve
Calavera’s attention because
it’s Quarry Creek? Well, I’d
have to say yes.” He also stated, “If it were another open
government issue that didn’t
involve Quarry Creek, would
they be involved? I don’t
know.”
Brewer said that the
city will respond to Preserve
Calavera’s letter within 30
days to establish that no violation occurred.

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now than it will be tomorrow.

SOUP TO NUTS by Rick Stromoski

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Nostalgia
will be a tempting refuge, but don’t fall
prey to its siren song. There are things
in your current life that deserve and
demand attention.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Even
though an idea that works exceptionally well happens to be yours, you’ll let
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013
the group as a whole take the bows.
Try to start setting aside a little seed This will make you more popular than
money in the year ahead. There’s a ever.
strong possibility you’ll be offered a
chance to join an exciting new busi- SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.21) —
ness opportunity. Be sure it can deliver The best thing you can do right now is
to settle in and do your work as well as
before you participate.
you can. Your quiet achievement will
TAURUS (April 20 —May 20) — Your
leadership qualities will be quite evi- not go unnoticed.
By Bernice Bede Osol

FRANK & ERNEST by Bob Thaves

THE BORN LOSER by Art & Chip Sansom

BIG NATE by Lincoln Peirce

MONTY by Jim Meddick

ARLO & JANIS by Jimmy Johnson

THE GRIZZWELLS by Bill Schorr

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — This is a enormous emotional support. If you’re
good day to nail down a financial feeling down in the dumps, seek out
arrangement that you’ve been working the company of the people who know
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when you need them the most. Use has to do with a relationship that you
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watching the damage be
done.”
“At that point there’s
really no going back,” he said.
“In the end we want to
support this project as we
understand the need to maintain local beaches,” Kube
said.“But we cannot support
a project that has not
addressed our concerns.”
“We have a very real
shoreline erosion problem to
solve,” said former Solana
Beach Councilman Joe
Kellejian, who worked on
the project since its inception.
He said development
and damming the rivers cut
off the natural sand supply.
“We need to supplement
what nature would have provided,” he said.
Kellejian said public
safety and the long-term
comprehensive shoreline
protection are paramount to
him on the issue.
“No longer do we want
to see Volkswagen-size boulders come off of our cliffs,”
he said. “The city can’t solve
the problem alone. It needs
the state and federal government to fund and build this
project.”
“This has been going on
for close to 14 years,” said
Councilman Tom Campbell,
who also has worked on the
project since its inception.
“It’s time to make a decision
and move forward. … We’re
never going to get this opportunity again.We have to take
it, and if we don’t, we’re
fools.”
Councilman Peter Zahn

agreed. “This is an opportunity that is not going to come
around again, or certainly not
in the foreseeable future,” he
said.
“It may be a choice that’s
distasteful for many. … We’ve
got to bite the bullet and go
for this thing.”
Mayor Mike Nichols, a

surfer, said he has a vested
interest in the success of the
project.
“Believe me, I don’t want
to be the guy who’s pointed to
out in the lineup (and people
say), “You’re the one that
ruined this break,’” he said.
The project will be presented to the Civil Works

Review Board in Washington,
D.C., in June.
Additional public hearings will be held in both cities
in the coming months.
The Army Corps of
Engineers is expected to make
a decision in November or
December, but project funding is still not guaranteed.

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